These herbivores may look peaceful, but they are among the most dangerous animals on the African continent. Their size, strength, and unpredictable behavior make them capable of inflicting severe harm ...

Creatures consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to stay alive.

What’s driving this: It depends on the animal, but food and water are the main factors. Less rain means less standing water ...

What’s driving this: It depends on the animal, but food and water are the main factors. Less rain means less standing water ...

A mammoth tooth reveals bacterial DNA from 1.1 million years ago, offering new clues about diseases and hidden ecosystems in ...

Throughout our planet there are a myriad of animal species, to the point that some of them are still appearing completely ...

The Masai giraffe is distinguishable from other species for its noticeably darker coloration. Its patches, vine leaf-shaped ...

From tortoises to crocodiles, meet the five longest-living land species that regularly cross 100 years and beyond.

Ras al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates’ seven territories, is emerging as the new adventure capital of ...

A pair of jaws found in phosphate reveal the existence of a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that thrived just before ...

Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior ...