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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Humans aren’t natural prey for sharks and it’s incredibly unlikely that sharks get a taste for humans after a bite ...

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

Elephants are responding to poaching and human-wildlife conflict in unpredictable ways, and even an experienced guide can ...

Here, they saw up to 15 gloomy octopuses getting on with their lives. These individuals weren’t just living close to each ...

The colossal squid is the largest squid in terms of mass, weighing in at 495kg. The squid’s tentacles are only released when ...