Researchers found hundreds of organisms hitchhiking on a plastic bottle cap and warn that this type of pollution could cause ...

Known as 'terminator pigs or ‘hell pigs’ entelodonts are just as terrifying as their nicknames suggest, says Will Newton.

Known from just a handful of fossils, Laophis remains one of the most intriguing and elusive giant snakes ever discovered.

The harm plastic pollution does to ocean animals is no secret but what if plastic could be used to save lives instead? Some scientists think it can. Two new studies have explored the possibility of ...

Ants are a superorganism – a group of organisms of the same species all working together in synergy. Rather than acting as individuals, they’ve evolved to operate as a unified organism – dividing ...

just how communicative were neanderthals?

Living, hunting and raising young together, this social spider forms one of the largest cooperative groups of any arachnid in ...

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The term fisher cat is believed to stem from European settlers in North America who misidentified the fisher for a polecat ...

With rising deer populations destroying woodlands, the UK faces a simple question: why aren’t we eating more of them?

But its showstopper feature is that the front part of its head is transparent. Early scientific drawings of this intriguing ...

Koala bears are an iconic marsupial native to Australia, living in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the country ...