The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.

After the Flood, G-d gave humans permission to eat meat, but this was a concession, as if to say: Kill if you must, but let it be animals, not other humans, that you kill.

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

This bias can create a negative feedback loop, the paper warns, where the most-studied species keep getting studied and the ...

The first wild eggs of an endangered bird have been laid for the first time in almost four decades, and the Cincinnati Zoo & ...

Canada’s forests make up nearly one-tenth of the world’s total. We are one of the most forested countries in the world, ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

Focusing on brightly plumaged and familiar birds can leave important conservation questions unanswered — and even put less ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

An award-winning zoologist, her spirited right-hand woman, and their sloth-sniffing rescue dog team up in Costa Rica’s lush jungles for the first-ever ...

with 130 new species and subspecies being described since 1990. Prosimians are the oldest type of primate. These tiny, ...