A shark that lays eggs in the shape of a corkscrew, a bird that gets drunk on fermented fruit, and a park that sinks ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural ...

Beneath the stream banks of Victoria, Australia, lives an earthworm of extraordinary proportions. The giant Gippsland earthworm is the largest earthworm species in the world, stretching to over two ...

The immune systems of multicellular animals have evolved under pressure to cope with both with pathogens and with harmless or potentially beneficial micro-organisms. The major surfaces which are ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Though the devil stick mantis is one of the largest of all mantis species, the nefarious influence of this entomological super-villain is limited to its East-African home range. It’s not known to have ...