Surprisingly the animal with the best hearing is one that has no obvious ears! The greater wax moth, which lays its eggs in ...

To mark the 40th anniversary of our weekly quiz, Noel Welch has compiled some of his favourite questions of all time – so you ...

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.

Predators in the forest understory are learning a strange new lesson: sometimes that ominous hiss in the leaf litter is not a ...

With the major die-off in the Florida Keys in 2024 and 2025 resulting in the mortalities of at least 65 large sawfish (and ...

The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025, judged anonymously by The Guardian country diarist Mark Cocker, has been awarded to three outstanding pieces of nature writing in prose and poetry. Nils Röper, who ...

When animals cry, moths start licking their chops. The less glamorous relatives of butterflies have been known to use their long proboscis to sip the tears of everything from birds to reptiles to even ...

These photographs tell a story few have seen — the Great Sphinx, buried for centuries, slowly revealed by early archaeologists. From the first 20th-century excavations to the modern era, this visual ...