A team of Indian researchers has formally described a new spider species from the Western Himalayas and cataloged 32 distinct ...

Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg. The cuckoo mother is aided in this subterfuge by her resemblance to a bird of prey.

Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) in flight. This is an adult male: Grey morph adult females have a pinkish-buff or buff background to the barring and the sides of the neck, and sometimes small rufous ...

“It all started when fishermen caught some strange looking sharks off the coast of Kenya,” says Dr. Rikke Beckmann Dahl of the Taiwan International Graduate Program. “They were recognizable as zebra ...

Anyone who visits the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Southeast Asia's coral triangle, or the reefs of Central America, will surely speak of how stunning and vibrant these environments are. Indeed, ...

A coral's color can tell of its resilience to climate change, and a new study has shed light on the underlying genetic factors that may be at work behind this. Anyone who visits the Great Barrier Reef ...