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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Many scuba divers will know the devastation of seeing coral reefs becoming bleached and dying. That was the case for Leon ...

The waters surrounding this windswept island teem with marine life, particularly seals and sealions – in fact, Point Bennett, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

From the octopus that walks on land to another that grows its own ‘lifejacket’, discover these unusual species ...