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Can leopards and cheetahs interbreed? Could cheetapards be a thing?
Tigers and lions have been known to interbreed, so why haven't cheetahs and leopards?
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From deathstalker scorpions, active volcanoes and Komodo dragons, this is what the world's deadliest deserts have in store
"Buried on ocean’s floor lies a flat, pancake-like lethal predator that's bigger than a king-sized bed and perfectly designed for deadly, ambush attacks"
Our guide to the strange looking angelshark, once common in British waters.
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"The heavens opened – and it started raining fish, hundreds of them…" And the possible reason was even more bizarre
Here are the possibilities investigators considered to explain the crazy experience
"First, it crawled around on the roof. Then it started pushing and clawing at the windows. I pounded and yelled, but couldn’t scare it away."
Photographer Isaac Szabo talks hellbenders, chub nests and bears on the roof
The strange reason animals eat their own snot – and it may be more than just a disgusting habit
Primates picking their noses? Here's everything you need to answer that question
The strange island where trees bleed, deadly cucumber trees grow and nature has evolved in ways found nowhere else on Earth
Found at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, Socotra island has the weirdest species
“I endured one and a half hours submerged in the freezing water, with only my head visible.”
Adventures above the Arctic Circle with bird lover Knut-Sverre Horn
“There were hundreds crawling across the trail.” Huge, hairy animals surround stunned hiker in Texas desert
Tamara headed to a Texan national park with the hope of spotting a black bear – but stumbled across something more ominous
It can spot prey over a mile away and swoop in at a staggering 100 miles an hour to make their kill - leaving their prey little chance of escape
We take a look at one of the world's most majestic birds, the bald eagle
Remote camera catches bobcat attacking biggest rattlesnake species on Earth
Camera-trap images show the wild cat biting and clawing a large eastern diamondback rattlesnake in Florida.
It's longer than a shipping container, has a metre-wide mouth and a dorsal fin the length of a baseball bat: 9 biggest, most gigantic sharks on the planet
These are some of the largest sharks in the sea (and the biggest isn’t the great white!)
"After mating he ensures no other suitors follow suit by chewing off his own genitals and uses them to plug the female"
Forget a post-coitus cuddle, the female Darwin's bark spider will engage in sexual canabilism once the male's done the deed.
Ichthyosaur pregnant with almost a dozen babies discovered in China – and they were nearly ready to be born
The fossilised marine reptile died with at least eleven foetuses inside her
Scientists discover bald eagle nest on banks of Michigan river – and are stunned at what they find inside it
Four bald eagles fledge from nest in North America for only the fifth time on record.
25-year camera-trap study of elusive Amazonian mammal reveals it’s changing its behaviour
Giant anteaters in Bolivia are adapting their behaviour in the face of rising temperatures, rather than predation threats
It ‘rains’ horizontally, is home to the largest cat in the Americas and provides life to two oceans
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a unique and extraordinary cloud forest in Costa Rica
Tourists witness jaguar fighting puma in Brazilian wetlands
Jaguar-oriented tourism is helping researchers in South America learn more about the behaviour of wild cats.
Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, then a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life
Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain.
Is rewilding really to blame for the recent wildfires?
As wildfires rage across the world, a fierce debate has erupted over whether rewilding is making landscapes more vulnerable to fire – or could actually help protect them. But what does the evidence really tell us?
It uses its razor-sharp saw-like teeth as a cookie cutter to rip circular chunks of flesh from its prey
Exploding anuses, 9 brains and a stomach that can come out of a mouth – nature's 7 strangest body parts that give animals incredible, bizarre powers
We take a look at some of nature's most extraordinary survival adaptions
It's as long as a 2 litre soda bottle, has 21 legs, is venomous enough to kill a bat - and a small child – and has eaten flesh from a human corpse
Meet the biggest - and most venomous - centipede in the world
"With its eyes fixed on ripples in the water below, it suddenly folds its wings, plummets and, a split-second before contact, thrusts its legs forward…"
Plummet, dive, snatch... ospreys are master fishermen, but why exactly are they so darn good at it?
