What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

This rare trait may allow the rainforest-dwelling species to move sideways instead of just forward, according to researchers.

Until now, the kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, ranging from central New South Wales to the Carnarvon ...

Scientists have discovered that the kultarr – one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials – is actually three different ...

UK gardeners have been put on high alert for a new destructive species of ant, the Tapinoma magnum, which has been sighted in ...

One of the true joys of assembling the Journal over all these decades is the connection it can forge between the Naturalist and my readers, some of whom have become ...

Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

The first new species is Idris bianor, named after the spider genus it parasitizes, according to the study. Its body length ...

While there are plenty of conservation efforts and community love for cute marsupials like the western ringtail possum, ...

Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography. In this Review ...

During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, archaeologists discovered two Early Cretaceous fossils estimated to be between 145 and 140 million years old that were mixed in with ancient Roman ...