New Horizons features many returning villagers and a few new villagers that can move onto your island - either temporarily or ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

This teeny tiny amphibian was found hopping through the cloud forests of southern Brazil. Learn more about the conservation ...

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

For more than two centuries, scientists have argued over where dinosaurs came from and how a scattered set of bones turned ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Unlike most animals’ weapons — like claws, horns or teeth — snake venom is in a perpetual race with the defenses of their prey. Snakes upgrade their venom; rodents and amphibians upgrade their ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

A new pumpkin toadlet species was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Brazil. Bracycephalus lulai is just over ...