With tide their clock, gravity their compass and sunlight their fuel, animalgae is a deal-breaking bond. Having shed major ...

Green anacondas can grow to almost 9m in length and weigh more than 250kg – that's about the weight of a male grizzly bear.

After swimming about 60m, I notice a big, murky cloud. It’s blood, though it looks greenish in the water, and I realise that ...

The natural world has produced some of the most potent poisons known to science. Here are some of the deadliest to humans ...

But thanks to a camera-trapping project in the very southern tip of Thailand, scientists from Panthera, the global ...

Sheep and goats may look similar, share pastures and even behave alike – but can they actually produce offspring together?

Perhaps they were curious as to what these strange, heavily-laden humans were doing in their territory – a vast, unspoiled ...

“I will never forget that moment. I called out to the others. The little shrew looked like something we had only seen once ...

Not so dim after all: alligators and crocodiles have been caught using sticks as bait to ambush birds – a rare display of ...

They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...

Barely longer than a matchstick, this tiny Tanzanian chameleon packs one of the fastest weapons in the animal kingdom ...