Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby ...

Head to the Pacific coast and you may encounter a gumboot chiton – a blob-like marine mollusc known affectionately as the ...

North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...

Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a male spider ever does. Females are ...

A new drone study reveals over 41,000 giant South American river turtles nesting on the banks of the Guaporé River between Brazil and Bolivia.

Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...

They do this as they need deep water to build their homes, known as lodges, in. The dams raise the water levels of a river, with the lodges providing a safe shelter from predators. Sophie is the ...

The Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, is a refuge for some truly extraordinary animals.

Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...

Often also called the feather-footed flower bee, it has distinctive brush-like tufts of long hair on the lower part of its legs. The bee likes to hover in front of flowers, sometimes with its tongue ...

Nemotodes can certainly adapt to extreme environments, such as the deep sea, Antarctica and mines that stretch kilometres ...

Meet the eye-catching comma – one of the UK's first butterfly species to appear in spring. The first butterfly of the year always lifts the spirits – and it’s often a comma. This butterfly seems to ...