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New species has its anus behind its head

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jun 2014

Lab-grown meat: a taste of the future?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jun 2014

Olinguito, tinkerbell, and a dragon: meet the top 10 new species of 2013

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2014

Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

Scientists discover giant sperm fossilized in bat feces (PHOTOS)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2014

Scientists uncover new marine mammal genus, represented by single endangered species

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2014

Not unique to humans: marmoset shows compassion for dying mate (VIDEO)

Ariel Mark 7 May 2014

When the orangutan and the slow loris met – and no one was eaten

Jeremy Hance 5 May 2014

The Harry Potter wasp: public votes to name new species after soul-sucking ghouls

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2014

NASA photographs the amazing ‘guitar forest’

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2014

New relative of the ‘penis snake’ discovered in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Wonderful Creatures: life is a gamble (inside a caterpillar) for the trigonalid wasp

Ross Piper 27 Mar 2014

Long lost mammal photographed on camera trap in Vietnam

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2014

Scientist discovers a plethora of new praying mantises (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

Several Amazonian tree frog species discovered, where only two existed before

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 18 Mar 2014

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Frog creates chemical invisibility cloak to confuse aggressive ants

Andrew Mann 14 Mar 2014

Mountain thermostats: scientists discover surprising climate stabilizer that may be key to the longevity of life on Earth

Dominic Rowland 14 Mar 2014

A Turtle’s Tale: researchers discover baby turtles’ kindergarten (photos)

Tanya Dimitrova 14 Mar 2014

Scientists discover single gene that enables multiple morphs in a butterfly

Aathira Perinchery 10 Mar 2014

Wonderful Creatures: meet the beetle-riding arachnid

Ross Piper 6 Mar 2014

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2014

Offshore wind farms could blunt hurricane damage

Loren Bell 28 Feb 2014

Wonderful Creatures: the tiny, predatory penis-worm that lies in wait in the sand

Ross Piper 28 Feb 2014

Scientists discover new whale species

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2014

Wonderful Creatures: the bizarre-looking marine worm with an incredibly important ecological role

Ross Piper 13 Feb 2014

Incredible encounter: whales devour European eels in the darkness of the ocean depths

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2014

Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2014

On edge of extinction, could drones and technology save the Little Dodo?

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2014

Alpine bumblebees capable of flying over Mt. Everest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 5 Feb 2014

Wonderful Creatures: meet the animal that has evolved a cushy, worry-free life inside an octopus

Ross Piper 30 Jan 2014

Amazing discovery in Antarctica: sea anemones found living upside down under ice (photos)

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2014

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