Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

The world's largest-ever scorpion wasn't tiny. It was bigger than humans and at one point in time, you could find it roaming ...

They have been around for more than 400 million years, making them one of the oldest known venomous animals on Earth that’s still going strong. All centipedes are venomous predators. By mixing up a ...

A professor has published details of a rare "inside-out, legless, headless wonder" fossil from 444 million years ago, which ...

A rare fossil from 444 million years ago, which belonged to a previously-undiscovered species, has been named "Sue" after the mother of the palaeontologist who discovered it. Prof Sarah Gabbott has ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Every time an inventory of insects and other arthropods is conducted in New Mexico, new species are discovered. The state, home to thousands of native pollinator species, is a “biodiversity hot spot” ...

Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

Verbal fluency tasks, which require participants to generate as many words as possible from a given category (for example, animals or fruits) or starting with a specific letter within a time limit, ...

We don’t think of animals other than humans having an impact on a planetary scale, but the whales really do.” Whales undertake the longest migration routes of any mammal. For example ...