They're native to the lowland forests of eastern Madagascar. In this spider-eat-spider jungle environment, the spider will spin vast nets suspended above rivers and lakes to catch an abundance of ...

Just when you have come to terms with the immense list of things to see on the South American mainland, the continent's most ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. This week, the members of Somerset Camera Club have been taking photos of rare birds visiting the county this spring. Every week, members of the ...

The pictures below show some of the most unusual species that have got bird watchers in a flap in the county in recent years. From a bird thought to be transported across the Atlantic Ocean by ...

A new bird park has opened in Mumbai’s Gorai, offering visitors a chance to witness 70 different bird species in a carefully maintained environment. The park aims to promote awareness about avian ...

The Darwin’s Rhea bird is native to the Patagonia region, across both Argentina and Chile. But the population on the Chilean side of the border has struggled to survive, while the Argentinian ...

Birds are also a well known group, and the estimate of the number of described species appears quite stable, varying from as low as 9 000 (Tangley 1997), through 9 750 (Groombridge and Jenkins 2002), ...

A total of 998 newborns from 143 species were collectively welcomed at Bird Paradise, Night Safari, River Wonders and the Singapore Zoo, said Mandai Wildlife Group on Thursday (Mar 27).