Like any other barnacle, itstarts life as a plankton, but moults into a very different creature; a ‘cypris’ larva stage, when ...

This elusive inhabitant of equatorial African rainforests is the biggest of all monkeys and arguably the most beautiful. The 30kg males - three times the weight of females - are adorned with a golden ...

These tiny microorganisms come together to create large, multicellular networks capable of navigating mazes and re-routing transport ...

Nolwenn Dheilly, one of the scientists involved, said “We strongly believe that such three-way systems are extremely common, and that many parasites use microbes as biological weapons to modify the ...

Cetaceans can be split into two main types: baleen whales (which have a sieve-like structure within their mouth to catch tiny fish when they take a gulp of water) and toothed whales (which eat prey ...

Rabies is one of the most feared diseases in the world with good reason, but thankfully now vaccinations are available ...

In Yellowstone National Park in the USA, ravens are strongly associated with wolf kills. For many years, it had been assumed they followed the region’s top predators in order to be the first ...

According to onlookers, the possum stayed among the soft toys for a short while before venturing out of the shop and into the ...

The Great Smoky Mountains lie like a group of slumbering giants along the border of North Carolina and Tennessee in the south ...

Scientists use weights to keep their camera equipment in place on the seabed – but this ocean dweller was strong enough to ...

Researchers were on an expedition in Dominica when a pod of enormous sleeping sperm whales appeared in front of them.

Actual evidence for Krys' size is very thin, but what isn't disputed is that saltwater crocodiles – Crocodylus porosus – are ...