Stand underneath its branches during rainfall and you can expect your skin to blister. Rub its sap in your eyes and temporary ...

"It's often infected with a parasite, which can be transmitted to humans. Untreated, it can lead to heart failure, damage to ...

One of nature’s biggest secrets is hidden beneath the chilly waters of the Bering Sea. Lying roughly halfway between Siberia ...

Cockchafers, along with stag beetles, dung beetles, dor beetles and scarabs, have the last three to seven segments of their ...

Plummeting down for more than 200 metres, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is one of the world’s deepest blue holes ...

When deep-sea researchers sent their underwater robot more than one mile deep in waters off Hawaiʻi, they were surprised to ...

And the 56.7˚C temperature is disputed, though a subsequent reading or 54.4˚C, also recorded in Death Valley, is very much ...

The ghostly trunks of a vast cypress forest, submerged for tens of thousands of years, rose out of the sediment, covered in ...

Often male birds are more colourful than their female counterparts, but the ecelctus parrot bucks the trend, as zoologist and ...

is crimson creature glides through the twilight zone with rainbows dancing up and down its body but to predators it’s ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

This nest contained 1,920 chambers, 238 of which were occupied by fungus gardens. However, this measurement only took into ...