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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 – ...

West Coast transient killer whales have long fascinated marine scientists with their impressive mammal-hunting techniques. Now, new research by the University of British Columbia (UBC) is shedding ...

Foraging for wild food: 10 tasty wild fruits and plants to find and eat ...

Fringe-lipped bats in the forests of Panama use a similar hunting strategy to the lions of the Serengeti, which they implement more efficiently. Instead of lying in wait to ambush their prey, the bats ...