nature

Until it was found a few days ago off the coast of Queensland, northeast Australia, there were no references to this disturbing creature.

A team of researchers, together with experts from the Society for the Conservation of Wildlife, have discovered a huge peat bog in central Africa.

For 78 years no one knew about the nocturnal snake Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha unaocularus, and it was deleted from the list of reptile species in the world.

A group of researchers has just discovered that female pigs are capable of recognizing whether a sperm will engender a male or a female even before being fertilized.

We show you a selection of images of the winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the year 2014 contest held by the German society of nature photographers. The snapshots are magical as well as spectacular.

A deep sea creature thought to be part of the large anemones, with tentacles over 2.2 meters in length, actually belongs to a new order of animals.

Scott Shaw of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues have discovered 24 new species of wasps of the genus Aleiodes in the cloud forest of Ecuador.

Contrary to what was thought, that monoculture forests are more productive, a study by the Group of Forest Ecology and Restoration of the University of Alcalá has shown that biological diversity increases the carbon storage capacity