They might both command a great deal of attention (and fear), but pythons and vipers have entirely different bodies, hunting ...

Marine researchers are using unsupervised AI algorithms to identify marine animals based on the noises they make. But not all ...

"Suddenly, one of them was behind me. I heard rips and the sound of planks dropping coming from my room. It was breaking through the wooden window." Wildlife biologist Stephanie Schuttler had a ...

Bubbles the dolphin is a familiar face at Lady Elliot Island in Australia, but a new scientific paper is making him famous ...

Their effect was somewhat diluted and dulled by the grey and pale tips, which as they broke off, allowed the other stronger, melanin-impregnated, colourful parts of the feather to take over their ...

But little is known about their selective feeding behaviours – specifically, which parts of carcasses they target and whether this changes throughout the seasons. “We knew that recent work had found ...

Mysterious trenches stretching across the surface of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain are allowing researchers to find ancient cave systems far below the ground.

Drowning as a method of killing prey isn't the most popular in the animal kingdom - but it does happen... Death by drowning, however, as a method of dispatch is quite rare – only a few species use it ...

Leopardus tilcayo (common name tilcayo cat) is native to the Bolivian Yungas cloud forest. The wider forest region, in the ...

Humans get bitten when they unwittingly get too close for the snake’s comfort. Bites result in grotesque swellings that ...

With all those conditions in place, the population would reach 1,182 rabbits by New Year’s Eve. And that’s just the first ...

A new study documents the first record of a black-legged kittiwake in Brazil. A black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) has ...