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

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

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 ...

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

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 – ...

In the first clip from BBC TV series Kingdom, David Attenborough narrates a tense encounter between a pregnant hyena and pack of wild dogs ...

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 ...

Australia has a reputation for being full of deadly wildlife – and with good reason. The vast antipodean island is home to an impressive list of dangerous critters. If you’re looking to apportion ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising new method for finding dinosaur fossils in Canada – and it involves an unlikely duo: lichens and drones. According to a new study published in Current Biology, ...

We all know there are quite a number of insects, from ticks to mosquitoes, bed bugs to fleas, but surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) large number of other animal species a enjoy a good feed of ...

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 ...