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"This 5kg bandit-masked carnivore is North America's most numerous mammal and often regarded as the ultimate urban pest"
Learn all about the raccoon, from size and diet to how they became slick city dwellers, including one enterprising individual who scaled a 25-storey Minnesota high-rise
‘Large potential wildlife moving near the weather station.’ Polar bear-detection system successfully clocks family in Canada’s High Arctic
As the climate changes, the chances of polar bears and people interacting are increasing. A new AI radar detection system, known as Bear-dar, aims to reduce surprise encounters, helping to keep both polar bears and people safe.
"It's like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel.” The wasps and bees with the most painful, savage stings on the planet
Not all stings are created equal – explore the bees and wasps whose powerful venoms produce some of the most intense pain ever recorded
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Climate scientist whose work shaped modern climate science says US government report got his research 'completely wrong'
An American climate scientist has strongly criticised a US Department of Energy (DOE) report on the impacts of climate change in the US.
This adorable animal has a bizarre body part – and a hidden camera just caught it showing it off
Striped possums have a shockingly long tongue to help them scoop insects out of their hiding places.
It's the length of Africa, home to more than 2,000 marine species—many found nowhere else on Earth—and one of the world's largest underwater forests
The Great Southern Reef might be less known than the Great Barrier Reef but it’s similarly spectacular
“It seizes the victim with large spines, impaling and immobilising the prey…” This ultimate hunter might look like a spider, but don’t be fooled…
In this clip from BBC Earth’s Expedition Guyana, George McGavin explores an extreme habitat underneath a fallen, hollowed-out tree in a Guyana rainforest, and comes across something interesting…
Which country has the longest coastline? Clue – there's a colossal 265,523km of it...
Which country has the longest coastline? Well, it depends on what you include, says Stuart Blackman
"It's the size of a house cat, with all the charisma of rusty-red teddy bear..."
All you need to know about the charismatic red panda
It's one of the world's most intelligent birds - whose curiosity - & taste for meat - led the New Zealand government to encourage their mass killing
With its intelligence and almost human sense of humour, the kea is a firm favourite in New Zealand, but its appetite and curiosity can lead it into trouble.
"Without warning and impossible to see with the naked eye, the prey vanishes..." 3 fastest bites in the animal kingdom
Some animals are so quick, zoologists have only been able to examine the physics of their 'bite' in recent years with the invention of super-slow-motion filming techniques. Here are some contenders for the fastest animal bites on Earth...
"They eat their hosts from the inside out, using saw-like teeth to chew their way through thick skin." 10 most brutal, savage, parasites on the planet
Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of others and eat them from the inside out…
Does grass scream when you mow it down?
Enjoying cutting your lawn? Next time your relish the smell of freshly cut grass remember it's a scream of distress from the plant you're mowing
"One individual can consume as many as 300,000 in a night..." It might be called a wolf but this is no wolf...
All you ever needed to know about the aardwolf
"Multiple stings can cause alarming swelling, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and confusion. An average human would be lucky to survive 1,000 stings"
What makes a slight skin prick, administered by a bee or a wasp, turn into a life-threatening emergency?
"A single, accidental step can trigger intense, burning pain, inflammation and nausea that can last for hours. In rare cases, it can cause death."
Sometimes it's not a good idea to walk barefoot across a beach...
It's colossal – 3 times the height of Angel Falls – carries 5 million cubic metres of water every second and it's buried 3000 metres under the ocean
The Denmark Strait Cataract is the largest waterfall on the planet – and it’s hidden deep below the waves between Greenland and Iceland
If you disturb this critter prepare to be stink-bombed by nasty excretions; a fiendish spray that burns and blinds its prey. It's bite is pretty painful too
Keep an eye out for the beetle with the triple-threat defence.
Can a person outrun a lion? Just how fast is the King of Beasts?
We don't actually recommend finding out..
"It causes rapid death in humans, with symptoms including lung collapse and brain haemorrhage"
Discover the awful symptoms of poisoning from hemlock water-dropwort, one of the most dangerous plants around
8 animals that can kill the enormous, deadly reticulated python. "If it struggles, the croc will spin it around – the death roll – and drag it down"
Reticulated pythons can take down large mammals, such as wild boar, deer and dogs, but sometimes the tables turn.
Why does a bee die after it stings you? And is that the case for all bees?
Just what happens to a bee after it stings you? Why do some species die and some survive?
When a deep-sea robot ventured down into the Atlantic's Doldrums, it found something massive no one expected – leaving scientists stunned
During a month-long mid-Atlantic expedition, underwater robots found rare hydrothermal vent systems, fish with translucent skulls and elusive squid with thread-like tentacles
What do a beetle and an iconic anime character have in common? A lot, apparently
Beetles constitute almost 25% of all known animal species – scientists just discovered two more.
