Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

From bird-dropping mimics to legless burrowers, these newly discovered species were hiding right under our noses.

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for hiding in plain ...

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers working across Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for ...

Rattlesnakes are venomous reptiles instantly recognized by the warning rattle at the end of their tails. While they live ...

Alligators are built for swamps, marshes, and slow moving Southern waterways, not mountain terrain. That is why wildlife ...

Animals use all of their sense to survive. One of the most extraordinary of these is the sense of smell. This is the ability to collect tiny molecules from the environment and interpret what they ...