Think birds can’t have spikes? Think again. Explore the world of spiky animals, from crowned cranes to hedgehogs and venomous ...

It can be tricky to determine the differences between aphids and spider mites because they look so similar. These pests generally invade plants and can wreak havoc on beautiful plants that you take ...

Forty years after the debut of her raunchy novel Riders, JILLY COOPER looks back on a carefree era of casual affairs and ...

The black snake Dendrelaphis atra has been discovered on an island in Papua New Guinea; this species stands out for its ...

The black-footed ferret is listed under the Endangered Species Act as Endangered, and is considered the rarest mammal in ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which ...

Parrots are some of the most iconic birds on the planet. And while we may commonly associate them with pirates in movies, ...

Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.

Meanwhile, the parent worm stays put and regenerates the lost tissue. In this way, a single R. multicaudata can dispatch tens ...

When two employees at the East Bay Vivarium in Berkeley, California, pulled a baby snake from the incubator seven months ago, ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

As night stretched across a mountain in southern Vietnam, a pregnant creature waited under some “rotting leaves.” But its hiding place wasn’t hidden enough. Visiting scientists found the ...