Most people’s reaction to seeing a snake is a mix of surprise and a sudden urge to be somewhere else, especially if you find ...

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

The bumblebee bat is recognized as the smallest mammal in the world by physical size. Discovered in a narrow region, it survives at the extreme edge of what biology allows. Its tiny body raises ...

These animals have highly unusual diets, evolving to consume anything from toxic plants to venomous arachnids.

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity and evolution.

The saola is a real and documented animal, but it remains a mystery to most experts and researchers. A forest-dwelling bovid that only inhabits the Annamite Mountains along the Vietnam–Laos border, ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Hundreds of thousands of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) gather at Kasanka National Park, Zambia, creating one of ...

The renowned Wildlife Photographer competition has kickstarted its voting campaign for the People’s Choice Award. These are ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...