The tiny plant, discovered growing inside the root of another small orchid, is just 2.1 mm wide from petal tip to petal tip.

This fall, BioArts, the company claiming to hold the only worldwide rights to clone dogs, cats, and endangered species, announced plans to discontinue its "Best Friends Again" commercial dog cloning service

There's a saying that goes "If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise." That may be true, but unless your dog has her own credit card and the pizza guy on speed dial, there are usually other factors involved.

A four millimetre long 'peacock spider' that can wave a pair of legs and two patterned flaps as part of a mating ritual has been captured on camera.

This weeks leucistic animal is an opossum, sent in by reader Cliff Ball, from Janesville in Wisconsin, USA. The white opossum is part of a family of at least three young ones and one older female (the mother) that all travel together frequently.

Now is the time to think about what's top of your wildlife wish list for 2010. The Tree Council's annual National Tree Week, 25 Nov to 6 December, could be the best time for you to plant the perfect tree or shrub to lure those species into your garden

THE weather over the past week has been fit for neither man nor beast. How odd then to find myself in the company of a man who has spent his adult life searching for some particular beasts - black panther-like creatures which he believes are roaming

The Ultimate Holding Company plans to tattoo one hundred volunteers with images of endangered species. Somehow, I'm involved

A man arrested in Sweden on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared after police decided she was probably killed by an elk.

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