Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

The Trapdoor Spider in Grow a Garden is a collectible Pet available during the Smithing Event in November 2025. It was available as a Legendary-rarity Pet from the digging minigame while the event was ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025. Almost 200 new plants and fungi were named new to science ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, formally named 125 plants and 65 fungi in 2025, including a zombie fungus that parasitizes Brazilian spiders, a bloodstained orchid from Ecuador, and a ...

Scientists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava A zombie fungus that springs from a trapdoor and a flame-like shrub named after the fire ...

Margaret Atwood once praised Adelaide for launching the global literary movement. Now, the festival is a “smouldering dumpster”.

There’s just one sane reaction to the decision to cancel the Adelaide Writers’ Week, after more than 180 authors and speakers ...