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One Redditor transformed their front lawn into a lush tropical paradise, full of gravel walks and rich garden beds.

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An Israeli man was caught smuggling 186 exotic animals from Thailand through Ben Gurion Airport. Snakes, turtles and lizards ...

You may think you get a break from creepy crawlers in the winter, but this multi-legged arthropod prefers a warm house in the ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have imaged a heritable form of bacterial symbiosis inside the ...

A tiny six-eyed blue springtail, Paranura species, surprises Japanese scientists and reveals four new species hidden in dead ...