Two individual jumping spiders ventured beyond Earth in 2012, when they were taken on board the International Space Station.

University of California researchers may have solved the mystery of the US river's disappearance from the geological record.

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When it comes to sheer volume, no tree on Earth can match the General Sherman tree. This colossus of the arboreal world, found in California’s Sequoia National Park, stands almost 84 metres tall, is ...

Researchers at Cornell University in New York State have documented one of the most significant aggregations of mining bees ...

Some fish can communicate with other species by changing the colour of their bodies – as this incredible footage shows.

The animal kingdom is full of bizarre mating rituals – and one of the oddest must be the Persian carpet flatworm ...

When space scientists send equipment into space, they think carefully about the risk of contaminating other worlds with ...

The nickname of this species – the ‘Tree of Death’ – tells you everything you need to know about its lethality. Native to the ...

Seeing ocean giants such as manta rays should be a heartwarming experience, but scuba divers in Bali had a sad encounter when ...

"It's often infected with a parasite, which can be transmitted to humans. Untreated, it can lead to heart failure, damage to ...