Some of the planet's rarest – and strangest – animals and plants live on the top of South America's otherworldly Mount ...

Predators tend to target young animals because they are easy prey. If young are born asynchronously, predators can eat a ...

Stuart Blackman takes a look at the contenders for the slowest bird in the world and considers just how fast they actually ...

Seven years ago, a poacher’s snare robbed a lioness of her leg. Against the odds, she lives on in Kafue National Park, Zambia ...

Researchers observed female howler monkeys eating more flowers after they had given birth.

There were fears for the future of very rare species, such as roseate terns, when an outbreak hit their only UK breeding ...

From battling kangaroos and skulking crocodiles to enormous whale sharks and dazzling spiders – these remarkable images ...

Bison are the largest land mammals in the United States, and these huge animals once roamed the Great Plains and North ...

The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major ...

Scientists in Florida are concerned about the impacts of beach nourishment projects on blacktip sharks and other marine ...

After ending up in the sheltered waters of the lake in Raja Ampat, the jellies evolved. Today, people can swim with them – if ...

The loudest recorded noise on Earth is often cited as the 1883 eruption of Krakatau – a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait, ...