While most animals manage to avoid inbreeding through scent recognition or by leaving their packs, others (such as those ...

The biggest fungus, née organism in the world, occupies an area of 3.7 square miles. That’s about the same size as two ...

In tense footage captured by the BBC, a barnacle gosling must leap off a cliff edge to its parents below. Will it make it?

The termites who built the mounds, in successive generations over several thousands of years, shifted a staggering 10 km 3 of ...

Karen Emslie explains how plant-eating dinosaurs, with tiny their heads and enormous bodies, found enough food to eat, despite limited resources ...

Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct flightless bird is working with Mauritian conservationists to restore ...

Seeing them from overhead for the first time, my heart sank. I could see how helpless the mother looked, and I could only ...

There is no uncontroversial explanation for their size, and scientists have numerous intriguing theories. The long necks of ...

Dramatic footage shows two Nile crocodiles colliding in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. The Nile crocodile is Africa's largest crocodilian, growing up to six metres in length and, in some cases, ...

This jaw-dropping shark is pink, nightmarishly ugly and can slingshot its jaw out of its face when it’s hungry ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...

Like other fish, seahorses change colour using small, sack-like organs known as chromatophores, which are embedded in their ...