“The material described herein was found during a freezer clean up: in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a ...

The sea otter’s grooming regimen will be familiar to anyone with a cat. Like cats, sea otters spend considerable time licking ...

Beneath the deserts of Australia, a tiny and mysterious mammal glides through the sand-the marsupial mole. There are two ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a ...

A new species of therizinosaur has been discovered in Mongolia, dating back to around 90 million years ago. Named Duonychus ...

In Mongolia, a new species of dinosaur with strange claws has been unearthed by paleontologists. It was discovered in the […] ...

Evolutionary biologists working in the Philippines have long puzzled over a hard-to-find amphibian mystery: the Leyte Chorus ...

The venom from one of the previously known spitting scorpions, the southern African Parabuthus transvaalicus, is known to cause temporary blindness in humans if the sprays hit the eyes.

The Mammals Dark team travelled to Argentina to film one of the least mammal-like mammals in the world – the ‘large hairy armadillo’. Image by Tom Parry. Camera operator Max Smith sets up a ...

Scientists have discovered a one-of-its-kind venom-spraying scorpion species in the rainforests of Colombia, capable of launching toxins several times its own body length. The new species Tityus ...