Eagle owls were once heavily persecuted. But thanks to a new initiative, these magnificent birds are reclaiming a wetland ...

Unusual lifeforms can still be found in the most unexpected (and extreme) environments, from the driest deserts to boiling ...

With a maximum depth of 1,620 metres, Lake Baikal is more than 800 times deeper than the deep end of an Olympic-sized ...

"With five limbs covered in hundreds of hydraulic, rubbery feet and no head – or even a defined front, back, left or right" – ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos have mainly type A blood, while orangutans have A, B, AB, and O. Gorillas, however, appear to have blood types that do not fit the ABO system. In all great apes, red blood ...

Dr Storey was astonished to discover that every one of the island's rewilded banana plants was producing “arrow-straight ...

While they are not dangerous to humans, beadlet anemones have a potent weapon up their sleeves. Stinging cells known as ...

Remarkable footage shows hundreds of shellear fish scrambling up Luvilombo Falls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Once thought to be individual sinkholes, they discovered that the cenotes are actually a complex system of caves and ...

The UK has always been warm enough for malaria, and native mosquitoes are quite capable of carrying it. Our endemic malaria, ...

Bees most definitely do not dance like no one is watching. A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Scientists wanted to learn more about how the largest hammerhead species on the planet may cope as the climate changes.