The animal kingdom is full of bizarre mating rituals – and one of the oddest must be the Persian carpet flatworm ...

Millions of regular mining bees are living in the soil of East Lawn Cemetery in the city of Ithaca, New York State, new study ...

Proportionately, however, it’s the tuberous bush cricket, whose testes amount to an impressive 14 per cent of its body mass.

When space scientists send equipment into space, they think carefully about the risk of contaminating other worlds with ...

Seeing ocean giants such as manta rays should be a heartwarming experience, but scuba divers in Bali had a sad encounter when ...

The nickname of this species – the ‘Tree of Death’ – tells you everything you need to know about its lethality. Native to the ...

"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 ...

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

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

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