Venom, and the means by which animals dish it out, is wildly diverse and infinitely fascinating. Some sting, others bite, a few have venomous spikes, and then there's that elite group of animal ...

A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being captured ...

Leucism, piebaldism and albinism fall under a suite of skin pigmentation disorders called hypomelanosis. Although animals afflicted with these deficiencies share similarities, the conditions can be ...

Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened ...

This story originally appeared on bioGraphic, an online magazine about science and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The first time Bruno D’Amicis set out to photograph ...

Big cats – like lions, leopards and tigers – are among the few animals with enough brawn and moxie to take on a full-grown crocodilian. While these predators certainly target the occasional toothy ...

In recent weeks, orca pods off the south coast of Western Australia have been spotted on two separate occasions hunting and killing blue whales – behaviour that's rarely been documented in the past.

A squid measuring in at just over four metres (13ft) was found washed up on a beach near Welllington, New Zealand yesterday. The impressive cephalopod was discovered by brothers Daniel, Jack and ...

Whether a harpy eagle plucking a capuchin from the treetops or a leopard ambushing a chimpanzee, predation on our primate cousins can be intense to witness – the fearful expressions of the prey hit a ...

Just about two months after the first female mountain lion in more than a century showed up in Iowa, another of the big cats has been confirmed in the American Midwest state. On August 31, Aaron ...

Science communicator Preeti Desai happened upon the decaying fish during a recent outing at a beach in Texas City. Viewing the serpentine silhouette from afar, she initially mistook the creature for a ...

A tentacled and elusive inhabitant of the deep sea has made a rare (and ill-fated) appearance off South Africa's western coast. Footage of the "giant squid" has been doing the rounds this week – but ...