Your body is stranger, funnier, and far more disgusting than you ever imagined. From fart speeds clocking 7 mph to spiders ...

The story sounds scientific enough to be true: daddy longlegs carry venom so deadly they could kill you, saved only by fangs too small to break skin. Scientists have a very different story to tell.

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...

Social media loves to claim that opossums eat 5,000 ticks in a week, but is it true? Do possums eat ticks? Find out the facts ...

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT), which looks after more than 100 nature reserves across the county, has created a free guide ...

An 8-year-old boy gingerly bit down on a sour cream-flavored cricket during a summer camp Monday at the Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur. "It tastes kind of crunchy and dry," Whitman ...

Not all stings are created equal – explore the bees and wasps whose powerful venoms produce some of the most intense pain ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

Chris Hamilton and Brent Hendrixson met someone unexpected in the mountains of Southeastern Arizona: a leggy redhead with a taste for cold weather. The two researchers discovered a new species of ...

What has eight fuzzy legs, a docile demeanor and the ability to liquefy its food before eating? If you are a member of the American Tarantula Society, the answer is: a pet. About 100 arachnid ...

Among the regular visitors to South African gardens, bulbuls are often the first to announce the start of the day with their ...