From flying insects like fruit flies and bees, to creepy crawlers such as ants and spiders, there are a whole range of pests that could come knocking at your door this summer. While some visitors may ...

Animals use many different kinds of adaptations to protect themselves. These animals, for example, have fangs!

Think humans are the smartest animals? Not so fast. Are we really the smartest species? Humans take a lot of pride in our ...

In addition to having local hunters as his guides, Vejmělka set up a camera trap on a fallen log over a stream in a dense ...

An elusive nocturnal beast of a rodent that lives high in the mountains has been filmed and photographed for the first time, in a remarkable discovery for animal science and something akin to winning ...

STONE Age people had a far more troublesome enemy than sabre-tooth tigers — bed bugs. Their first settlements — like Fred ...

Spotting a rat or a mouse in either your garden or worse, in your home, is truly the stuff of nightmares. Apart from being unsightly creatures, rats are also known to pose significant health and ...

A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long – three times the size of a brown rat. The 'striking and formidable' species, called the subalpine ...

František Vejmělka New Guinean Woolly rats are some of the largest murine rodents in the world - and are triple the size of the average rodent in the UK or US. Despite its total length of 85cm ...

A new study has revealed why some spiders possess venom that is far more potent than others. By analyzing the venoms of more than 70 different spider species, the team explored whether factors such as ...

The invasive Joro spider is rapidly expanding its range in the U.S. Learn where it’s been spotted and why it’s thriving in cities and suburbs alike.