Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions ...

Once thought extinct, the world's rarest insect – nicknamed the 'tree lobster' – was rediscovered on a remote sea stack.

But inside the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Butterflies in Flight show, which will run until January next year, visitors ...

Considered extinct for over 80 years, a chance find on a sea stack where little survives has sparked hope for the future of ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in ...

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

The ground is covered in snow and the trees and bushes are naked. The insects that normally fly or crawl in warmer weather are nowhere to be seen. You might assume that insects do not survive the ...

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

The detector's design aims to unravel a long-standing mystery in neutrino science: the different "flavours" of neutrinos and their mass hierarchy. "It's the least understood particle in our world," ...

A giant star 150 times bigger than the Sun has been pictured 'hiccuping' by scientists. Despite being predicted in theory, the rare cosmic event had never been seen before. It only occurs in ...