Walking through the Display Gardens feels like taking a botanical road trip across North Carolina without the gas expenses. The Coastal Plain Garden recreates the unique ecosystems of eastern North ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

This is a barn owl, the scarcer of our two breeding owl species. It is a nocturnal species that breeds indoors in old farm ...

It may look, and smell, foul — but this spider marks the latest exciting discovery in a string of new species found in the ...

Fauna & Flora’s 10 species to watch in 2026 includes extremely venomous vipers, highly prized falcon, a guitarfish which ...

Close-up shot of Telipogon cruentilabrum.

Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, ...

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

That’s exactly what happens at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. Nestled in the rolling hills of the Piedmont region, this 1,000-acre natural sanctuary isn’t just another pretty ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...