Octopuses are undeniably fascinating creatures. As one of the most intelligent species of invertebrate, the octopus is ...

New Zealand has taken great strides to protect the increasingly threatened Giant Wētā, one of the heaviest insects on Earth.

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

Parrotfish construct a cocoon made from mucus to protect themselves when they are sleeping. It's like a personal mosquito net ...

While congressional Republicans sipped eggnog, single-malt Scotch or the holiday beverage of their choice around a roaring ...

Most zoo members attend a couple to three times a year. Even if they visited every day, they'd be hard pressed to meet all ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

Cuts of beef discolor at different rates based on their exposure to oxygen, not on the quality of the meat itself, CSU researcher Mahesh Nair said.

Vanya Gregor Rohwer slid open a drawer to display the rich pink spread wing of a roseate spoonbill, one of thousands of ...

Sometimes the moment comes to do the right thing, even when that amounts to an act of self-harm ...

In between bouts of wild weather at Heard Island, work continued on land and at sea this week. RSV Nuyina on a rare day of ...

There’s a beautiful example of symbiotic mutualism playing out in our oceans: the pairing of the great goby fish and pistol ...