Discover the 10 most beautiful wild cat species, from powerful big cats to rare small felines, and what makes each truly ...

The Patagonian mara is a long-legged rodent built for speed, survival and social living on the open plains of South America ...

Seeing strange people in your house is never a good sign – especially if they’re miniature, elf-like creatures jumping around ...

An uninhabited volcanic island near South Georgia in the South Atlantic used to host more than a million chinstrap penguins.

As the descendants of the largest terrestrial animals that have ever lived, dinosaurs, it’s no surprise some birds have grown ...

The word talon is normally applied to birds of prey. So what are these talon-possessing birds and how do they employ them?

Coral reefs are just one environment where birds act as highly effective ‘nutrient processing machines’ in ecosystems ...

“They’re very unstable laterally. I assume they’re under control but they look comic, as if they’re kind of wobbling, and ...

It’s up to 40 miles wide, contains billions of creatures and can take 20 years to form – is this nature’s deadliest, most ...

Findings from the data revealed that the shark’s life expectancy is at least 272 years, making it the oldest living of all ...

Record numbers of baby sturgeon have been recorded on the Rioni River in Georgia, as efforts to conserve stocks of these critically endangered fish appear to be paying off. A project led by the nature ...

There’s a lot about snakes that make them stand out. For example, they have no eyelids and don’t blink. They also have no ...