When a great white shark got trapped in a shallow saltwater pond in Massachusets, Greg Skomal was called to help. Here’s how ...

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

The pupae are carried back to the red ant nest, and when they hatch, the kidnappers coat them in secretions from specialised ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

Some tigers do become serial man-eaters. But the evidence suggests they are driven by necessity rather than preference.

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned ...

But Harvey-Samuel believes no one single method will save Hawaii’s native birds. His work is at a very early stage, and it could be many years before there are any genetically modified mosquitoes ...

Above ground, life is powered by photosynthesis. Plants and algae use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into energy and oxygen. In the Movile Cave, that’s not possible. So, instead, life is ...

They are always in big gangs, always flying as one, like giant airships crossing the city. Starling murmuration isn’t just one spectacle for an hour or so each afternoon; it’s a whole process, a way ...

Named for its astonishing head crest, Spinosaurus mirabilis was found at a newly discovered site known as Jenguebi. This fossiliferous area lies in Niger’s central Sahara and, based on its geology, it ...

So, to capture this incredible behaviour, filmmakers and scientists teamed up to create a robotic ‘Spy Sea Otter’ camera for ...

The critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were spotted during a recent population census in Vietnam’s Khau Ca ...