Some see squirrels as adorable, bushy-tailed creatures that run in circles around tree trunks before they finally race up ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

Just south of downtown Miami lies The Kampong, a tropical paradise founded by one of America's most prolific inventors, now ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Every winter across most of the northern US, giant bags of salt materialize at grocery stores and home improvement retailers ...