Venomous snakes are often judged by toxicity alone, but size introduces a different kind of danger. This video compares the ...

Kangaroos hopped onto the race course at the Tour Down Under, injuring cyclists but allowing Australian Jay Vine to recover ...

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Sleeping underwater presents a serious challenge for animals that still need oxygen to survive. Different species have evolved specialized strategies that allow rest without fully losing awareness or ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

This week in science: Scientists propose new standard measures for cannabis use; mysterious ancient lifeforms don't ...

These animals have highly unusual diets, evolving to consume anything from toxic plants to venomous arachnids.

Robots, equipped with cameras and disguised as animals, were deployed in the BBC TV series Spies in the Ocean to capture surprising behaviour ...

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...