Meet the thorny devil, a dragon-like lizard with a false head that lives in the scrubland and deserts of Australia.

Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge, Garcia says. If no mate is handy, a female can bear sons parthenogenetically—and when they’re older, they ...

As appetites go, this is pretty impressive. The incredible clip shows a rat pulling a slice of pizza bigger than its entire ...

Brandon Noel joins Central Paving's crew in Ellensburg, WA to learn echelon paving firsthand -- running two pavers in tandem on a live road to eliminate cold longitudinal joints and build stronger ...

My brother planted daffodils in his back garden in Limerick a couple of autumns back. Our mother would do the same each year ...

Our writer first hiked in the Lake District, Eryri and Dartmoor in the 1970s. Their beauty remains unrivalled, but they are more popular than ever. So, here’s how to avoid the crowds ...

When families start thinking about introducing a pet into their home, they usually consider those that the internet says are ...

At a Las Vegas casino aquarium, sharks eat restaurant-quality seafood: Here’s how aquarists keep them healthy and thriving.

The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, is distinctive for its short, fat tail that becomes a black mohawk ...

For decades, ecologists lumped everything bad for animals under one word: stress. But what if animals don’t experience harsh environments as stressful at all? What if it is the opposite? Animals have ...

Castlewood Canyon State Park earns its reputation for catching people completely off guard, and that is genuinely its ...

Willa Cather’s reader, like her characters, must keep an ear out for the whisper, an eye out for the sign and a ...