The Gooty sapphire tarantula Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the peacock tarantula, is a strikingly beautiful species of arboreal tarantula. It is well known for its vibrant metallic blue ...
All three species are related but perhaps not as closely as you’d think. Asian elephants are more closely related to woolly ...
This is in part because of their extraordinary life-cycle: vast numbers of tiny larvae, known as glochidia, are released by ...
We may be part of the same overarching group as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, but there are lots of things that set ...
In muddy estuaries live secretive worms with special ways of pulling edible morsels into their lairs. Meet the ragworm ...
The fossilised dinosaur poop was discovered in the USA’s Hell Creek Formation, a known hotspot for prehistoric remains ...
Our relationship with the African wildcat is ancient, but our attitudes to its domesticated descendants, the pet cat,have ...
Just why do seahorses look like horses? Helen Scales explains why their equine-looking head makes them stealthy ambush ...
Female chimps use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologist Lucy Cooke explains.
New research is uncovering the matriarchal secrets of zebras – including unprecedented behaviour, says Lucy Cooke ...
Female dunnocks frequently take not one, but two ‘husbands’ and have been documented copulating over 250 times with both in order to start a family. Such profligacy, though rare among birds, is all in ...
Bigger and brainer than all other primates, great apes are also distinguished by their sophisticated social structures and ...
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