According to one app for nature observers, it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why?

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

New research out of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior finds that female bonobos team up to keep male bonobos in ...

Populations of animals and plants separated by even thousands of miles can rise and fall together driven by ecological ...

Forget fleeting friendships – the social secrets of the long-tailed tit has revealed an extraordinary level of family ...

The rare sighting of a living juvenile colossal squid has scientists stunned and thrilled.

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much ...

Imagine walking through a lush, green forest, sunlight dancing on the scales of a basking lizard. Nearby, a turtle glides through the water and a snake slithers silently in the underbrush. For ...

Mark Post, chief science officer for the company Mosa Meat in Maastricht, the Netherlands, who unveiled the world’s first lab ...

For decades, the small sultanate of Oman has lured travelers with its deep ties to tradition and its tranquil desert quarter.

What Romeo and Juliet did next is showcased in National Geographic ’s latest underwater adventure, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection. The scientific wizardry is the work of Magellan of Guernsey in the ...