An invasion of mysterious worms has created havoc in China, causing herdsmen and livestock to flee the grasslands in the...
A new report based on a study of wolf spiders in Greenland has revealed that one of the lesser known downsides of global...
An ice shelf in western Antarctica is breaking up with huge ice chunks crumbling away and an area over 1300 square miles...
Scientists have found that adding small amounts of metal such as zinc or titanium to a length of spider silk makes it a ...
Scientists have for the first time identified and treated what is believed to be the cause of honey bee colony depopulat...
An egg that Charles Darwin collected on his famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and which was lost for almost 200 years ...
A chihuahua-Jack Russell cross known as 'Tom Thumb' is set to be the world's smallest dog. Weighing just a few ounces an...
A pet shop owner in Connecticut was amazed to discover that one of the 6-week-old rabbits delivered to the store had two...
Bees have been in the news a lot in recent times, covering everything from their mysterious disappearance to the claim t...
Unlike traffic on our roads, large numbers of ants have the remarkable ability to maintain an average velocity regardles...
A large panther-like creature has been sighted in England by locals walking their dogs. 'Alien big cats' have been sight...
A new study has shown that dogs, rather than chimps, are most like humans. Dogs have undergone so much domestication tha...
A Bushland Beach resident sparked intrigue after taking a photograph of a green-striped frog eating a green tree frog of...
Images of an orangutan mother catching a rope and using it to get herself and her baby across a flooded river have emerg...
A bat was spotted clinging on for dear life to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery during liftoff this...
A chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo helped demonstrate that chimps, like humans, are able to plan ahead. The chimp made a specta...
The idea that a mysterious disease is responsible for the unexplainable disappearance of large numbers of bees over the ...
Mountains the size of the Alps have been discovered entombed in ice under Antarctica, scientists have said following a p...
Attempts to compare the DNA of the remains of an ancient polar bear found in a cave in Scotland with that of modern pola...
Several highways around China's capital Beijing were closed on Thursday after a torrent of heavy snow caused by the seed...