Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey ...

The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?" ...

Prosopis was introduced as a tough, drought-fighting ally in Ethiopia’s drylands. Decades later, its spread shows how quickly ...

Australian Aboriginal culture doesn’t show up on American TV often and it’s even rarer to see any Aboriginal fantasy/speculative fiction. That’s just one of the reasons why this flawed but compelling ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird and fire ant. but new ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, harlequin ladybird and ...

This time last year, we were in Australia having a “hot” Christmas. Our hosts decided to join us this year to experience a ...

Tribbles are trouble in the Star Trek universe because they're so hard to remove, much like these real-life animals that've ...

Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction problems and even possess some understanding of the concept of zero ...

FOR three years, he was Britain’s very own Man in Black – and while the rest of us were watching The X-Files, Nick Pope was ...