Is the myth that elephants deliberately die in ‘graveyards’ true? (Image credit: VEAM Visuals via Getty Images) According to legend, when an elephant realizes that its time is coming to an end, it returns to a certain place to leave…
(Image credit: Martin Harvey/Getty Images) Elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet and, with their trunks, tusks and huge ears, they are among the most famous and iconic animals alive today. These amazing creatures are renowned for their…
The previously unknown golden-lined xingren fish appears to be still evolving for cave life. (Image credit: Xiao MY, Wang JJ, Luo T, Zhou JJ, Xiao N, Zhou J (2025), Zoosystematics and Evolution (CC BY 4.0).) Scientists have discovered a previously…
Woolly mammoths disappeared about 4,000 years ago. Is it time to bring them back? (Image credit: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY – Getty Images) Biotech firm Colossal Biosciences on Tuesday (March 4) showed off photos and videos of “scruffy mice”…
The peacock mantis shrimp holds the Guinness World Record for the most powerful punch delivered by an animal using its own strength. (Photo by Reinhard Dirscherl/Getty Images) Mantis shrimp pack a powerful punch, and scientists have finally figured out how…
The book, The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World’s Spiders, looks at three spiders and their unusual feeding habits. (Image credit: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo; blickwinkel/Alamy Stock Photo; Josiah O. Kuja, Robert R. Jackson, Godfrey O. Sune,…
In the CGI-assisted documentary, Attenborough comes face to face with the extinct species at London’s Natural History Museum. (Image credit: PBS) Jump to: “The Living Museum with David Attenborough” is a CGI documentary presented by the renowned British naturalist that…
Trichopelma grande is a newly discovered species of tarantula with incredibly hairy limbs. (Photo courtesy of David Ortiz) Name: Giant Hairy Tarantula (Trichopelma grande) Habitat: Western Cuba. Diet: insects, lizards, frogs and other small reptiles. Why is this interesting: Arachnophobes…
Emma Teni, spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park, has nicknamed the giant funnel-web spider ‘Hemsworth’. (Photo credit: Australian Reptile Park) The largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded – a dangerous behemoth measuring 3.6 inches (9.2 centimeters) from limb to…
Atrax christenseni is the largest of three Sydney funnel-web spiders, which were previously thought to be the same species. (Photo credit: © Kane Christensen) Researchers have discovered that one of Australia’s largest and most dangerous spiders is actually three different…
This photograph shows T. achilles (left) and another Colombian species, T. (Atreus) icarus (right), exposed to ultraviolet light. (Image credit: Léo Laborie/Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024) A scientist has identified the first South American scorpion species capable of…
The zombie spider fungus (Gibellula attenboroughii) infects spiders while they are still alive. (Photo credit: Tim Fogg/CABI) Researchers have identified a previously undescribed fungus that controls minds and creates ‘zombie’ spiders after it was found in a Victorian gunpowder magazine…