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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Birds’ eggs are a nutritious source of food, so it’s hardly surprising that lots of animals eat them. In summer, egg remains are common, so if you find one, first check if it hatched normally. If it ...

Did you know there are 41 distinct species of cat, from fearsome lions and tigers, to the well-known and beloved domestic cat? And that some cat species can count themselves among the rarest animals ...

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 – ...