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 ...

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 ...

Living in a world of water, sound is as important to whales, dolphins and porpoises as sight is for humans, says the experts at Whale and Dolphin Conservation. As well as using sound to navigate and ...

Named after the wedge-shaped stone at the top of an arch, which locks the other stones into position and prevents collapse, a keystone species is one that plays a central role in the structure of an ...

Scientists investigating a single species of African toad found more than they bargained for: three species, all of which give birth to live young.

Brown rat or water vole: How to tell the difference between these two lookalike-rodents ...