While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

A large, flightless, nocturnal insect that can grow the length of an adult human's hand thought to be extinct for 80 years, ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the ...

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World's largest hummingbird The southern giant ... The new species of 2024 include a number of mammals, including rats, mice and the first new species of armadillo in 30 years.

British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the United Kingdom. Teams from Oxford and Birmingham Universities ...

In fact, Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most important species for science for more than a century. Were it not for these flies, some of the most significant scientific discoveries ...

For fans, the Pro Bowl is meaningless; a barely watched teeter-totter of games that don’t matter and some flag football whose outcome signifies nothing. For players, however, a Pro Bowl ...

2024 was a banner year for those who invested in the most widely held stock funds, with many of the largest index funds outperforming the competition. In the background, funds with the heaviest ...

In October, UnitedHealth confirmed that over 100 million people had their personal and healthcare data stolen, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years. On February 19 ...

culminating in a Japanese super-fight against Junto Nakatani Naoya Inoue is building towards “the biggest fight in the history of Japan” in 2025. Inoue is one of the most impressive stars in ...

We look back at some of the biggest stories that made headlines around the country. An infestation of rats at a Dunedin supermarket prompted an investigation by food safety officials in January.