A young rock-pooler discovered a rare 'alien-like' winged creature washed up on a UK beach. Charley Taviner, five, was ...

Green plants evolved under a yellow star. Change the star, and biology adapts. This video explains why plants on certain exoplanets would reflect red light instead. The result looks strange, but the ...

Now that your catch-up streaming binges are done (thanks, Stranger Things), it's time for movie nights with theatrical hits ...

Coming to life from the legendary TMNT comic book, the Triceraton are here with some impressive Deluxe Shock Commandos ...

Many non-native plants could survive in the Arctic, as rising temperatures and human activity make it easier for invasive plants to arrive.

More than 2500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...