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

In the battleground of nature, many animals have evolved mechanisms to both eat and avoid being eaten. This includes the production of chemical toxins, which may be used to incapacitate prey and make ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

In July 1969, Apollo 11 launched into space and Neil Armstrong and ‘Buzz’ Aldrin successfully performed the first crewed lunar landing. Television images of the men taking humankind’s very first steps ...

One of the highest honours in the natural history world is to have a species named after you, often to honour your work. Some species are named after their characteristics – colours, size, behaviour, ...

Taxonomists describe thousands and thousands of new extant (living) species every year, and 2023 has already seen some amazing new discoveries. Sometimes, these creatures are completely new ones that ...

The need for milk is an essential part of the development of any young mammal, and being aquatic makes breastfeeding considerably harder. Nursing their young with milk is one of the things that ...