On a small, remote island, south of New Zealand, one of the world’s rarest parrots – the kākāpō - is watching over her young. She’s not alone. Hidden in her nest, a live webcam broadcasts her activity ...

According to the US Journal Military Medical Research (2016), only 14 documented cases where people have survived out of the millions who have died though there are many anecdotal ...

The bumblebees avoid drowning by combining underwater gas exchange with anaerobic metabolism, according to a new study.

When scientists dropped a video camera to the seafloor off Rotuma in the South Pacific Ocean, they filmed an octopus lashing out at a grouper.

Today it covers about 972,000 km² – an area 100 times the size of Yellowstone. It is the only national park in Greenland and ...

Researchers used 37 years of data to study predation on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. They discovered the animals are eating ...

The River Nile flows for 4,132 miles through the African continent, crossing 11 countries, through desert and Savannah, past ancient cities and temples. It is the longest river in the world – though ...

Scientists studying bull sharks in Fiji found that the animals may have more complex social lives than previously thought.

These bridges featured in BBC series The Green Planet in 2022. Speaking to BBC Wildlife, producer Elisabeth Oakham said, "Concrete and wooden bridges don't last very long, so the local Khasi people ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning 9.2 million square kilometres (3.6 million square miles) – an ...

Daisy is a journalist and writer with 20 years of experience working on titles including the Telegraph, Time Out London, ...

Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from ...