Flora and fauna

We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple ...

Island Queimada Grande off the coast of Brazil was named the most dangerous on the planet, according to reports. This territory is home to more than ...

A team of biology researchers with members from Australia, the U.S., Czech Republic and the U.K. has found a correlation between eggshell color and ...

We live in a world where every weird creature has it’s own photo session. Well, it’s pigeons turn…and not just any pigeons: 50 ...

BENEATH the translucent gold vein-like structure lies what looks like the eye of Smaug. But this is no dragon’s eye. It belongs to something ...

The death toll from flash floods and landslides in Indonesia has risen to 31, an official said Sunday, as search crews scour devastated villages in ...

Forget leapin' lizards. In Australia, Africa and North America, it's climbin' crocodiles you have to worry about. New research finds that — ...

Behold the giant. The world’s tallest known tropical tree has been discovered in a rainforest in Malaysia, measuring a whopping 89.5 ...

The barbaric trade is on the rise because of the increase in the number of tiger farms in China. The global wild tiger population is estimated to be ...

A cluster of fire ants floating on the surface of water is pushed down with a pair of tweezers. Note the deflection of the water surface and how ...

As a result of deforestation, only 6.2 million square kilometers remain of the original 16 million square kilometers of forest that formerly covered ...

This Bald Eagle latched onto a fish that was too big too fly with. He had to swim to the shore to eat. Filmed in May 2011 in Prince William Sound ...

The famous king of the jungle is the most revered and feared animal in Africa if not the world. Lions are the only felines that spend their lives in ...

Animal flight at altitude involves substantial aerodynamic and physiological challenges. Hovering at high elevations is particularly demanding from ...

He's the real life Black Beauty.And Frederik The Great, a breathtakingly beautiful Friesian stallion from the United States, may just be the world's ...

Two British men became the first foreigners to scale Mount Everest in two years when they reached the summit on Thursday with a Mexican ...

A Dutch artist has found a bizarre way to create colourful floor tiles – by using snail poo. Lieske Schreuder thought of the concept when ...

A farmer has spoken of his shock after he found a newborn goat had the face of a human baby. Ibrahim Basir shared pictures of what people have ...

"Wrapped" is a graduation short film from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, created at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital ...

An unsuspecting snowboarder got the fright of her life when she checked back her footage from a day on a Japanese mountain and saw that a bear had ...

Try to wrestle an alligator underwater, and you'll probably lose. It's not just that the average gator—at 11 feet long and close to 1,000 ...

1979 – for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in the Sahara Desert. It was in Southern Algeria and the storm only lasted a ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near ...

This marvelous place is called Shell Beach. It is located in the Caribbean, on the island of St. Bartholomew near the small town of Gustavia (about ...

An underwater research craft has spotted a "ghost-like" octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near ...

The Atoyac River, which crosses eight municipalities in the central mountainous area of eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, disappeared overnight ...

The longest domestic cat is Mymains Stewart Gilligan (Stewie to his furr-ends), who is 123 cm (48.5 in) long. He is owned by Robin Hendrickson and ...