If you have ever found a creepy-crawly creature in your home and thought to yourself, ‘Ew, it’s a centipede!’ you’re not ...

What is the cleanest animal in the world? Read on to explore the impeccable habits that make these animals stay spotless and ...

Been fishing lately and seen a blob in the water? It could actually a colony of small animals. Here's what to know about the ...

I learned their taxonomies — the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Some of these animals exhibited parasitism: In order to survive, they’d latch onto a host organism ...

Oct. 16, 2024 — From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows ...

This is a brief overview of classification in the sport and is in no way legally binding. In all cases the sport-specific classification rules will take precedence. For further questions please ...

Oysters and clams are two very popular edible mollusks or bivalves. Although they have many similarities between them, there ...

For 170 years, most of what we've known of the largest bug to ever live on Earth came from discarded headless casings with ...

Search our Species Guide by entering the first few characters of the species' name in the box below. You can search by English or scientific name and choose between either IOC or Clements as the ...

The rumen microbiota—a symbiont to its host and consists of critical functional substances—plays a vital role in the animal ...

New research reveals that microbes in urban environments are evolving to withstand the very cleaning agents designed to ...