It has been more than three years since Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a major climate change plan to usher in solar and wind energy and phase out polluting, planet-warming coal and natural gas. Yet ...

Hans Zimmer’s work will be brought to the live stage and feature a star-studded lineup that includes Billie Eilish, Finneas, Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Timothée Chalamet, and Zendaya.

Newly described scorpion can spray and inject its venom — the first South American species known to do this. A scientist has discovered the first species of South American scorpion that sprays ...

Here’s how it works. One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest.

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Through these painstaking efforts, the research painted a picture of Engaji Nanyori as a dry, semi-desert environment, with little water and few plants. But the landscape hadn’t always been that ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" Big Boy would be classified as a separate species The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 150 km of Sydney ...

This dazzling arachnid was given its moniker in 2015 by UC Berkeley PhD student Maddie Girard after they were discovered in Wondul Range National Park in southern Queensland, Australia.

Rod Crawford, the Burke Museum's arachnid expert at the University of Washington, told the outlet: "True human spider bites of any kind - dangerous or harmless - are vanishingly rare. "Take me as ...

nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the deadliest arachnids in the world. The Sydney funnel-back spider has held the title of ...

By arachnid standards, it is a whopper. While a normal male has a 2.5cm body length, the Newcastle variation, named after the port city where it was found, is more than 9cm long. Last week ...