A truly unusual find discovered in Japanese coral reefs, these strange creatures were granted their own species.

Ants stick to their tongue, like flies stick to fly paper, but the adaptations don’t stop there. Once swallowed and shunted further along the digestive system, the food arrives in a gizzard-like ...

Chatty harbour seals each have their own unique calls. Mothers use these sounds to locate their pups on the often-crowded beaches. The research examined how else the seals might adjust these ...

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Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus ...

Take people who believe Earth is flat, for example. You could present them with satellite images showing that the planet is ...

Stephen Hawking spent much of his life pulling at a thread, one that had been swallowed by a black hole. He was interested in ...

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