Dog owners in Yorkshire are being urged to urgently rethink how they walk their four-legged friends, as leading canine ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see. A team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw art.

According to one app for nature observers, it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why?

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ...