Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, how to handle bites.

Recent discoveries of two new shark species in Puget Sound have sparked public interest and may encourage greater conservation efforts.

Oaxacan pygmy rattlesnake (Crotalus ravus brunneus) Guerreran pygmy rattlesnake (Crotalus ravus exiguus) Central Mexican pygmy rattlesnake (Crotalus ravus ravus) As their name would suggest, they are ...

Advice to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC) on Amendments to the List of Threatened Species under the Environment Protection and ...

Trap-jaw ants can slam their jaws together with extraordinary speed, with the tips of their mandibles racing at up to roughly 120 miles per hour. How they could perform such attacks, repeatedly ...

After many years of careful searching, researchers have pinned down the identity of a new species of shark. Meet the demon shark.

Pseudo-chromosome–length genome assembly for a deep-sea eel Ilyophis brunneus sheds light on the deep-sea adaptation ...

Zavaljus brunneus (Gyllenhal, 1808) – a beetle species new to the Polish fauna (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) by J. Hilszczański; T. Jaworski; R. Plewa; J. Ługowoj Publication date 2014 Collection ...

They're Ants That Collect Skulls. Now We Know How And Why. These skull-collecting Formica archboldi from Florida are proving to be more than just generalists.

Abstract An updated and annotated checklist of mammals occurring in Brazil is presented. A total of 751 native species, distributed in 249 genera, 51 families and 11 orders were recorded to the ...