Japanese giant hornets pack a venomous sting so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Watch an attack by these killer insects on a hive of honeybees, and learn the surprising secret of the bees' defense.
Australian zoos are eagerly anticipating the arrival of eight Asian elephants. But animal welfare groups say the zoos are more interested in attracting visitors than conservation.
Researchers have found a jumping spider in East Africa that hunts mosquitoes filled with human blood, the first known spider with a taste for mammal blood.
Researchers in Africa recently observed wild gorillas using sticks to navigate a swampy clearing, providing the first evidence of tool use among the great apes in the wild. See the proof for yourself.
Swimming from Africa to Australia and back, a great white shark completed the first documented round-trip ocean crossing by a shark—and in record time.
Giant marine reptiles called plesiosaurs used their long necks to hunt for food on the seabed, newly found fossils suggest. The discovery challenges the long-held idea that the ocean predators targeted only free-swimming prey.
A huge Burmese python in Florida may have died while eating an alligator. But a new theory says it was a battle with a second gator that made the snake explode. Updated.
The winning pictures in this year's Visions of Science Photographic Awards take you from the depths of the Caribbean Sea to the surface of a cancer cell.
