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

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

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to ...

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

In the rainforests of South-East Asia, there is a tree shrew that can binge without getting drunk. The flowers of the bertam palm, for instance, produce a nectar that can be as alcoholic as beer and ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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