With summer in full swing, insects are emerging. This includes bumblebees, which work to grow their colonies and search for nectar in blooming flowers. What may not be expected is seeing more dead ...

With summer in full swing, many people are planning beach trips or coastal vacations to get a taste of the ocean before autumn arrives. Like clockwork during this time of year, we tend to hear more ...

Discover how a tiny Lake Malawi insect survives crushing depths, rewrites scientific assumptions, and helps sustain an entire ...

The Brazilian black tarantula is famous for its velvety appearance and unusually calm temperament, but its slow growth, long lifespan, and murky trade history make it a species worth understanding ...

Tomiyamichthys oriens is a newly discovered shrimpgoby from Indonesia named for its fiery colors and the "Sunrise of Java." ...

Coconut octopus are one of the most unique species of octopus as they live in shells like hermit crabs. Read here to learn more.

Quick Take A Shell-Building Ocean Drifter A Floating Nursery and Personal Submarin... Built for Life in the Open Ocean For thousands of years, sailors and naturalists believed the paper nautilus ...

The superb lyrebird has one of the coolest abilites on earth: vocal mimicry. Read here about what this bird mimics, and why.

When male Komodo dragons rise on their hind legs to grapple, they are performing a ritualized contest that determines mating access on Indonesia's crowded island habitats.

Death's head hawkmoth squeaks like a toy to scare predators. Learn why it squeaks, where it lives, and how it got its eerie ...

A new study reveals the nature of shark vertebrae, and how their specialized mineral structures allow some sharks to swim ...

The Pristiophoriformes order consists of sharks with built-in saws for hunting and defending themselves, but they're rarely ...