The creative method could pave the way for researchers to detect — and fix — soil degradation.

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

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Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

Overshadowed by the fact that myllokunmingids had four eyes is their age. Prior to this discovery, the oldest preserved ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...