The giant killer claws of dinosaurs such as Velociraptor might have been employed much as birds of prey use similar talons — as hooks to keep victims from escaping, researchers say. The discovery ...

Japanese honeybees also use heat as a defence mechanism. When a hornet attacks a hive a group of worker bees generate heat by vibrating their wing muscles, making it too hot for the hornets to handle ...

In a controversial trailer for its new television special, Discovery Channel suggests that the show orchestrated and filmed an event in which a man was eaten alive by a humongous anaconda snake. Take ...

Scientists extract DNA from hair embedded in the Tsavo lions' jaws that reveals the species of prey they ate while they were alive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

There are around 4,000 species of snakes in the world, and they come in all sizes, from tiny blind snakes to some of the biggest and most powerful snakes around — the anacondas. Anacondas are some of ...

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its huge, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body. International researchers in collaboration ...