For the first time ever, scientists have successfully extracted RNA from a woolly mammoth, with analysis supporting ...

The violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) is a rare and exotic-looking bee that can grow up to 3cm. It has a striking ...

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...

For the first time, scientists have quantified how many deep-sea squid short-finned pilot whales in Hawaiʻi need to eat to ...

Scientists investigating a single species of African toad found more than they bargained for: three species, all of which give birth to live young.

By searching through museum specimens, scientists found two new, and rather peculiar, spiders species from St Helena: one ...

West Coast transient killer whales have long fascinated marine scientists with their impressive mammal-hunting techniques. Now, new research by the University of British Columbia (UBC) is shedding ...

A species of bear that lives in China, almost all of the giant panda’s close relatives are meat-eaters. A few million years ago, giant pandas were too. For some reason that we are still unsure of, ...

Gorillas are the world’s largest primates, with a typical male silverback weighing almost 200 kilograms. There are two species of gorilla – the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) and western gorilla ...

In the first clip from BBC TV series Kingdom, David Attenborough narrates a tense encounter between a pregnant hyena and pack of wild dogs ...

Foraging for wild food: 10 tasty wild fruits and plants to find and eat ...

Is this very ordinary plant a secret, yet deadly, meat eater?