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biology

Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

Life

Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

Huge sea spiders move excruciatingly slowly, but they can still catch prey animals that move much faster than them – because their prey sometimes crash into the seafloor

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Snails in performance

Life

The world's first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut

Culture

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

Life

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

Earth

The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides

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Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

Earth

Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

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Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

Life

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

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blossom

Life

Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty

Culture

Landscape

Earth

Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we can’t afford complacency

Leader

origins artwork

Humans

Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse

Features

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

Earth

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

One-eighth of the world’s 11,000 bird species are now threatened, and in most cases farming is the biggest threat thanks to our increasingly meat-rich diets

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Life

Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers

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Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Life

Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Life

Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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