Matriphagy is a type of animal behavior where the young eat their own mother. It is the ultimate display of maternal martyrdom and takes motherly love to the highest level. You can see it in action in ...

Lay peaches cut-side up in a roasting tin, sprinkle with sugar and pour over the grappa. Grill until soft and the sugar dissolves, add the strawberries, cover with cling film while hot and let them ...

Rudely roused from an afternoon nap, the stocky shore crab I’m inspecting is contorting every part of his one-and-a-half-inch ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

Before his name became associated with youth baseball in Worcester, Jesse Burkett was a standout in the major leagues. He was ...

Camouflage is Mother Nature's greatest form of deception, and these animals are doing it better than any others.

A member of the family Thomisidae, goldenrod crab spiders are both crabby and spider-y.A medium-sized crab spider, these creatures are familiar garden visitors across southern Canada and the United ...

Despite their name, horseshoe crabs—bizarre, ancient aquatic critters—don’t look like horseshoes and they’re definitely not crabs. They’re arachnids. Just like spiders, scorpions ...

This amazing footage taken by a scuba diver shows THOUSANDS of spider crabs migrating at the bottom of a bay. Giles Pollock, 33, took the footage while participating in group snorkeling in the ...