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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Standing nearly four metres tall and weighing around six tonnes, the largest animal living on land – the African bush elephant – is a pipsqueak compared to some of the creatures in the ocean. With the ...

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

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully extracted RNA from a woolly mammoth, with analysis supporting ...

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

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

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