Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

T he Malaysian earthtiger tarantula was first described in 1891 by respected Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell. However, ...

The success of a transplant from a patient with only one copy of the protective gene might be a one-off, but may also allow ...

What’s impressive, though, is that they still managed to be surprised.

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

The problem was with software that calculates the elevation of a plane. Solar particles from the Sun can mess with the ...

For many Christians today, the Bible is one of those very few permanencies in the world. It connects them to a world ...

Most of the time, a thresher shark's tail is gently swishing side to side to move through the water, but it's capable of a ...

In the quest to understand why agriculture started in a particular place and time, understanding the climate is crucial.

As a Shetland pony, Pumuckel was always going to be on the smaller size compared to some horses, but his owner, Carola ...

This top-down effect is technically known as a trophic cascade – a “domino effect throughout the ecological community,” as Pacific Wild puts it. As wolves hunt animals in the rung of the food chain ...

Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals how ESA is stepping up and doubling down on its commitment to monitoring our ...