A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

It takes a lot of guts to scale the highest mountains on Earth, but an intrepid bunch of animals makes living so far up seem like ... Despite this peculiar limitation, it is still able to live in ...

Minks live in dense areas near rivers and are ... They're considered one of the smelliest animals on the planet due to the stinky odor they emit from their anal glands, which is seven times ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet ...

Across four live shows, Blue Planet Live revisited animal characters from multi-awarding winning Blue Planet II, and met new creatures, celebrating our oceans' complexity with never-before-seen ...

These creatures are one of the longest animals on Earth, spanning up to 160 feet! They live in the deep sea and eat crustaceans, larvae, and other small deep-sea creatures. Some pink river ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times ... is as an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet Earth. A species’ genome is a sort of manual; when the species perishes, that manual is ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic ... unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

Extremely close-up images of a cannabis plant, spider eyes and a mouse brain are among the winners of the 50th annual Nikon ...

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading ...

In addition, rather than using animals as a pretext for lessons on morality ... the late arrivals become males and live inside their girlfriends. Unfortunately, commercial whaling reduces the ...