Snake conservationist’s NGO funded by brand that makes bags from pythons
One of the world’s leading snake conservationists is under fire for his NGO’s financial links to Louis Vuitton,…
Water bears on Mars: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy?
Artist’s concept of a tardigrade, or water bear, floating in space. These creatures are small, about the size…
Man Sees Ball Of Fur Covered In Snow In His Front Yard — Then It Starts To Move
Late last month, during a heavy winter storm, an elderly man in Massachusetts noticed something unusual in the…
Dance, pluck… then paralyse: the riskiest date night in nature
Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a…
Weird-Looking Marsupial Found Alive After 6,000 Years of Alleged ‘Extinction’
Field researchers call them “Lazarus taxa,” species once presumed extinct that suddenly appear to have risen from the…
New Species with Milky Way Spots Discovered in Japan’s Coastal Waters
A newly discovered species of jellyfish has been confirmed in Japan’s coastal waters, and it’s being called the…
It’s bigger than Florida, straddles 3 countries and is home to a snake as long as a great white shark
Covering around 70,000 square miles, the Pantanal is the largest tropical wetland on Earth. The vast floodplain ecosystem…
Hikers find sea turtle stampede tracks dating back 80 million years
Free climbers scrambling over a steep coastal mountain in Italy noticed something odd on a broad slab of…
What’s for lunch? The slippery battle between heron and eel
Opinion: Nature is full of battles between predator and prey, but this particular encounter is anything but straightforward…
Barbary lion: Two of the world’s rarest lions put to sleep at zoo
They were previously housed at Port Lympne Zoo in the south of England. In a statement, the zoo…
‘A matter of national security’
Invasive species are causing escalating damage across ecosystems in the United States, prompting federal officials to warn that…
10 incredible images and videos of ‘nature’s engineers’ that can build structures seen from space
Beavers are ecosystem engineers, transforming the landscape by building dams. They do this as they need deep water…