Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

There’s just one sane reaction to the decision to cancel the Adelaide Writers’ Week, after more than 180 authors and speakers ...

Margaret Atwood once praised Adelaide for launching the global literary movement. Now, the festival is a “smouldering dumpster”.

Zionist author at the centre of the Adelaide Writers’ Week furore has been labelled a “hypocrite” after she called for the ...

Tap a small beetle on a table and it may suddenly collapse, tuck in its legs, and lie perfectly still. Many insects do this.

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025. View on euronews ...

There are nearly 90 unique tarantula species in Peru, ranging from nine-inch giants to tarantulas named after Star Wars ...

Citharacanthus cyaneus, the Cuban orange and violet tarantula, is popular in the pet trade for its vivid metallic violet and coppery-orange coloring. There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, ...

There are over 60 known tarantula species in Ecuador, with many more suspected. Click here to learn all about tarantulas in ...