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

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

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

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 ...

For more than a year, marine animals were mysteriously dropping dead: around one million animals were wiped out and some humans even got sick. Now, scientists have confirmed that the culprit behind ...

While diving in the waters of Fiordland, off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, researchers were amazed to discover an enormous black coral. The coral is thought to be among the largest ever ...

East of the Trans-Mongolian Railway, hoofbeats now compete with the sound of trains rumbling down the tracks. Long excluded from this region of the Gobi Desert, the khulan (Equus hemionus) is making a ...

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 ...

Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the ...

The remains were discovered in the Stora Förvar cave, an archaeological site on the island frequently used by seal hunters ...