At first glance, most lizards do not appear especially powerful, but many species possess remarkable survival adaptations that can completely change the outcome of a predator encounter. Some can ...

Black rats (Rattus rattus) have lived alongside humans for millennia, making homes in our dwellings, raiding our food stores, ...

“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

SCIENTISTS have made a cracking discovery after uncovering mysterious impressions of reptile skin from almost 300million ...

Animals face a constant battle to survive, not just by finding food but by avoiding becoming food themselves. Over millions of years, evolution has produced a vast range of defense strategies, from ...

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to ...

A giant freeway crossing for wildlife is due to open outside Los Angeles this year. Here’s the story of one young cat hemmed ...

Twilight is creeping over the jungle, hot and steamy as a sauna. Cicadas screech. Frogs beep-beep. Overhead, macaques cackle in the canopy. Ahead, a lake dissolves into the darkness, its shores ...

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti of the Berlin Museum of Natural History, has published in ...

Picacho Peak State Park sits halfway between Phoenix and Tucson, offering a natural escape that most stressed-out Arizonans ...

Smith Rock State Park is what happens when Mother Nature decides to show off. The park features these massive volcanic rock spires that shoot up hundreds of feet into the Central Oregon sky, painted ...