Conservationists are celebrating the rare birth of twin mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga ...
These ‘bubble bullets’ are louder than an underwater gunshot and hotter than lava. The immense heat and pressure also produce ...
Learn all about the unmistakable pilot whale, from their diet and size to life in the pod and why, sadly, they're prone to ...
Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly extinct.
In a scientific first, researchers have recorded how quickly microplastics pass through the gut of zooplankton to better understand marine plastic pollution.
Ostriches are also known as camel birds, because they are said to resemble the humped mammal from a distance, and are equally ...
In Patagonia, killer whales snatch seal lion pups from the shore. But as Steve Backshall recalls, these apex predators don’t ...
According to co-author Brenton Cooper, a neuroscientist who studies speech and language, cowbirds briefly hold their breath ...
During a night dive in Bali, an underwater photographer happened upon a fascinating example of symbiosis between a carrier ...
I have fails all the time. Some are my own fault, such as the occasion I dropped a 600mm lens into a river; others are down ...
Conservation charity Fauna & Flora has released its 2026 Species to Watch list, which spotlights some of the most endangered ...
Suddenly but silently, as if defying the laws of physics, a bull elephant appeared from the bush just metres from our vehicle ...