A 14-year-old orca named Wikie has succeeded in imitating some of the words spoken by her trainer.
A new experiment has revealed that mosquitoes are able to remember when a person tries to swat them.
A tiny fly with very strong forelegs has been named after one of the world's most famous bodybuilders.
It's not only humans who favor one hand over the other - cats seem to share this preference as well.
A new study has revealed that some species of hawk deliberately start fires in the Australian outback.
43 eggs found in a children's sandpit in Australia may be from one of the world's most venomous snakes.
The minuscule peacock spider has a rather colorful way of attracting the attention of the opposite sex.
Researchers have determined that the giant Pacific octopus is not one, but two genetically distinct species.
Experts have been left perplexed by the unexplained deaths of millions of kangaroos in Australia.
There are now fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos left on Earth, but exactly who or what is responsible ?
The crest-tailed mulgara - a small carnivorous marsupial - was thought to have died out a century ago.
Marine biologists have identified what could potentially be the world's oldest living vertebrate.
New footage has emerged of a diver's extremely close encounter with the jaws of a monster shark.
A new species of extremely deep-sea snailfish has been found in the depths of the Mariana Trench.
Louisiana exterminator Jude Verret was called out recently to remove a truly monstrous nest of hornets.
For the first time ever, it has been possible to directly observe one species evolving in to another.
Sightings of a particularly unusual type of moth are becoming increasingly common across the British Isles.
Nicknamed Pearl, the reptile was seen swimming around in the Adelaide River near Darwin on Sunday.
Scientists have found evidence to suggest that some fish can use a form of rudimentary sign language.
A new study has revealed that, like humans, the humble sheep has the ability to recognize a familiar face.