Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...

Each year, thousands of fish fall from the sky in Utah. But this isn’t a scene from a film – it’s part of efforts to restock ...

A new study describing the discovery of rare platypus fossils has shed some light on the evolutionary history of one of Earth ...

Madagascar holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest island in the world, after it split off from Africa during the ...

There’s something fishy going on New York City’s East River, and researchers have used DNA collected from the water to work ...

In the dark of night a bulky animal shape lumbers up a rocky track, climbing the steep side of Mount Elgon in Kenya, intent ...

When danger threatens, the gut wall ruptures and the organ is ejected through their rear ends. On contact with seawater, it ...

Celebrated wildlife film-maker Hamza Yassin says we should be doing more to encourage children's love of wildlife ...

The deepest part of the ocean – the Challenger Deep – is in the hadal zone, a deep-sea region named after the Greek god of ...

Off the coast of South Africa, these male bottlenose dolphins have left their pods to join groups of other males to play with. Jostling one another, they scuffle – finding a potentially lethal toy to ...

Every April, horseshoe crabs descend on Delaware Bay to spawn, forming the largest horseshoe crab aggregation on the planet.

The fourth of five ocean zones – the abyssopelagic zone or the abyss – stretches from 4,000 to 6,000 metres deep ...