While the majority of animals (humans included) roam the Earth, some of nature’s most fascinating creatures spend their lives in trees. A recent study tracking koala movements highlights this fact.

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl exclusion zone with a new project in the Japanese Fukushima Prefecture to ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

From gliding to farting, snakes have bizarre superpowers. Celebrate National Snake Day with these shocking behaviors.

Most people think they don’t get enough sleep, but compared to the animal kingdom, we’re wide awake. Some species spend nearly an entire day doing absolutely nothing, all for good reason.

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

As demand for palm oil has increased, so has scientific interest—particularly in palm’s tocotrienols, with potential benefits ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

A 500 million-year-old fossil with a spider's brain structure suggests that arachnids may have evolved in the oceans.

New research reveals that koalas only spend around 10 minutes per day on the ground, but this ground-time is associated with ...