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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...