In 1799, George Shaw, a curator in the natural history department of the British Museum, received a strange skin in the mail.

Daddy longlegs, also called harvestmen, have been documented catching and consuming living frogs larger than themselves in ...

It’s the world’s most prestigious photography show, but Les Rencontres de la Photographie really flies thanks to the jaw-dropping work of eccentrics, amateurs and complete unknowns ...

Two giant Asian praying mantis species are rapidly spreading across Europe, leading scientists to officially classify them as ...

Two striking Asian praying mantis species that have rapidly spread across Europe have now been officially classified as ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

True blue is one of nature's rarest tricks, and the animals that pull it off range from tiny ocean drifters that steal venom ...

You say tomato, I say tomato frog. Endemic to Madagascar, there are three species of tomato frog – Dyscophus antongilii, Dyscophus insularis or Dyscophus guineti – all of which have colouring that ...

Quick Take Essential Goliath Frog Facts Goliath Frog Size and Pressures Reproduction and Tadpoles Why Are Goliath Frogs So Huge? Frogs and toads rely on ponds as a place to lay their eggs and for ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Fossils from newly hatched animals are prompting scientists to revisit a long-accepted idea about the first vertebrates on land. Rather than developing the way frogs do, with a tadpole-like youth ...