The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

Researchers believe they may have worked out why giant trevally swim upstream in the Mtentu Estuary and circle in vast ...

If you want to go somewhere that's both off-the-beaten-track and remarkably beautiful, Mongolia is absolutely worth visiting ...

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

Whale placentas only float on the surface of the ocean briefly, so collecting them for scientific study is incredibly rare.

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

A quick tap then startles their prey into fleeing straight into the open tentacles.

Qninba notes that falcons cache dead prey with flight feathers intact. “The fact that some live prey had been plucked ...

Japan's snow monkeys soak in hot springs for thermoregulation and to relieve stress – a new study suggests there is another ...

The rockhead poacher is a weird-looking fish. It has a large, bowl-shaped dip in the middle of its head. Scientists have long wondered why and a now they’ve come up with an interesting theory.

Once thought extinct, researchers are trying to find out more about this tiny carnivore to aid its conservation.

I shudder to think how often I’ve courted disaster, unknowingly, like this. The episode drives home a stark truth: out here, who detects the other first can determine who survives. Alert, we become ...