There will come a time when the whole natural world, with all the living things it comprises, will be restored to their condition before the fall.

The foundation of the joy experienced by a true follower of Jesus Christ must not be due to personal achievements, but the knowledge of being in a sincere relationship with him.

Among the livestock and possessions that no Jew was permitted to covet was the ox.

In Hebrew and Greek literature, this animal is renowned for its shrewdness and also for its small size compared with other predators.

This miracle, incomprehensible from the point of view of pure logic, has been exercising the minds of numerous theologians and commentators since the 19th century.

Roosters crow before dawn to mark their territory and attract hens.

A review of Poor Things, film by Yorgos Lanthimos.

The mother hen is thought to contribute decisively to regulating the chicks’ rhythms of activity and rest.

An adult male dromedary camel can weigh as much as 700 kilos and reach a height of three metres. By contrast, the eye of a sewing needle is less than one millimetre wide.

Christ taught you can tell what a person is like inside by the words they speak, and that everyone will give account for their words.

Tthey move with great ease by means of the lateral undulations of their bodies. They can do this because their skeletons are made up of short, broad and floating vertebrae.

Recent studies focusing on the social behaviour of the sheep show that they are much more complex than has been thought.

When the fox digs this lair, it removes the soil and spreads it in all directions around the entrance, thus forming a kind of fan shape.

The dogs referred by Jesus in Matthew 7 were animals that belonged to no one, running wild and untamed, and consuming any waste that they could find, including corpses, which was why they were regarded as unclean.

Scriptures abound in stories in which animals perform important pedagogical functions.

The shark has built-in software to know when to change direction, how to hunt a particular prey, escape a predator, among many other actions.

From a human perspective, questions immediately arise about why there are so many lethal organisms in our world.

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Animals and Plants of the Bible, by biologist and theologian Antonio Cruz, analyses the over 300 animal and plant species mentioned in Scripture.

Up to now, no one had any idea why only one in a million snails rolled its shell to the left.

If there were no carnivores, herbivore animals would succumb to starvation and many different diseases.

Some birds use deception by pretending that they are sick, or have a broken wing, in order to attract the attention of predators and draw them away from the nest containing their eggs or newly hatched chicks.

Although flies are often very annoying, they are a blessing for the biosphere.

In Israel there are currently seven species of vipers. In the Old Testament there are numerous Hebrew terms that refer to them.

Among the most dangerous snakes for human beings that can still be found in Israel are the following: the black desert cobra, the Palestine viper, the Palestine ladder snake, the horned desert viper.

Certain species of leech are capable of sucking an amount of blood equivalent to ten times their weight.