Britain’s canals were not designed for nature, but for many species they could be what makes survival possible ...

To see one, you’ll need to dive 800m into the twilight zone where they float around looking – quite frankly – like a pair of ...

That’s small compared to the largest giant salamander on record: a specimen caught in southern China in the 1920s that ...

Even more disconcertingly, the snake can lift the top third of its body off the ground whilst it is moving, to improve ...

The bobbit worm is a fearsome marine predator that burrows into the sand and waits for unsuspecting prey. The worm uses its ...

Ecologists wouldn’t use the word ‘personality’ in a psychological sense, but researchers are recognising that individual ...

A 2025 study of blue-footed boobies found that mothers of reduced broods were 16 per cent more likely to survive the next ...

That Phyllobates poison dart frogs are highly poisonous is well known – it’s in their name, after all, and a single frog can ...

After identifying a deep-sea coral garden off West Africa in the 1960s, researchers thought it was dead so didn’t explore it ...

The dispute began in 1545, when winegrowers in the village of Saint-Julien, now southeastern France, complained that green ...

Just how do furry, woolly and feathered animals get vitamin D?

Neil is a southern elephant seal and twice a year for the past 12 years, he returns to land in a phenomenon known as ‘haulout ...