A scientist has discovered a new species of moth hiding in plain sight, thanks to innovations in DNA sequencing.

Art collectors Allan and Mei Warburg bought the land “without any concrete plan to build what would eventually become one of ...

Animals have all sorts of funny shapes and sizes, with some not even having ears at all. Read here to learn more.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A photographer's guide on the essential lenses that shape composition, depth, perspective, and other creative details across ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

A large-scale population metagenomic study has shed new light on the spatial heterogeneity of viral communities across the ...

At first glance, the photo above may look like a grove of alien-esque trees as seen from below. But this picture wasn’t taken on some otherworldly planet—it’s actually an extreme close-up of the ...

Scientists used the April 2024 solar eclipse to show how animals adjust their behavior when daylight suddenly disappears.

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions: ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...