Meet the cat-sized prehistoric scorpion with deadly venom, huge eyes and strong pincers that ruled Carboniferous forests ...

Discover 10 of the most unusual bathroom habits found in the animal kingdom - from the weird and wacky to the gross and ...

That’s because the feather barbs in the eyespots are locked together with tiny hooks, much like those in flight feathers, ...

Snakes do indeed pee – but more interestingly, perhaps, many “pee” in crystal form. Snakes, like every living creature, need ...

Dunkleosteus belonged to a group of ancient, armoured fish known as the placoderms. These fish lived during the Silurian and the Devonian periods - between 440 and 359 million years ago - and they ...

For the first time, scientists have quantified how many deep-sea squid short-finned pilot whales in Hawaiʻi need to eat to ...

The violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) is a rare and exotic-looking bee that can grow up to 3cm. It has a striking ...

Nature Photographer of the Year 2025, organised by Nature Talks, is an exciting photographic event featuring a wide range of ...

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...

By searching through museum specimens, scientists found two new, and rather peculiar, spiders species from St Helena: one ...

Researchers in Antarctica have discovered a strange collection of icefish nests. The scientists were on expedition in the Weddell Sea looking for Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance – ...

The pelages of many tarantulas sparkle iridescent blue when viewed in the right light, but none come close to this beauty. The Gooty tarantula Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the metallic blue ...