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The largest-ever-recorded blue whale was an Antarctic female who also...
Animals
Our obsession with the bamboo-loving ‘cat bear’ tells us much about the modern world and our place in it, says Henry Nicholls.
More new dinosaurs have been unearthed in the past decade than over the previous two centuries. As Planet Dinosaur hits TV screens, Paul Chambers celebrates this golden age of discovery.
Co-director Keith Scholey on the making of the forthcoming feature film African Cats, opening in cinemas in February 2012.
Orangutans are icons of the conservation of South-East Asia's forests. Read our factfiles on both the Sumatran and Bornean species and find out the best places to see them in their natural habitat.
Spiders inspire fear like few other animals. Rob Dunn reveals their fascinating survival tactics, the science behind our fear and whether a true arachnophobe can be cured.
James Parry follows his nose to find the pungent, leaf-munching hoatzin, the Amazon’s evolutionary throwback bird that thinks it’s a cow.
Fatter, sassier, more sociable…Jude Isabella reveals how America’s rural raccoons became seasoned urbanites with a taste for French fries and jam doughnuts.
If you've been fascinated by the diversity of wildlife on the BBC One series Frozen Planet, read on for more incredible facts about penguins, wolves and whales.
The filming of the amazing BBC series Frozen Planet broke many records for the Natural History Unit. The coldest, the oldest, the first – read these astonishing facts here.
You don’t need to travel overseas to encounter orcas. Rob Lott introduces the largest, most exciting hunters in British waters – and wonders if our only resident pod has a future here.
