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Do cats really have three eyelids?
Why do cats, and other animals, have a third eyelid yet humans don't? Stuart Blackman explains
Why did a T-Rex have such ridiculous, puny arms?
It has the fastest bite in the animal kingdom and victims are sucked up when this deadly ambush predator opens its enormous mouth
It's best not to venture too close to this deadly ambush predator
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Jedi ants, Skywalker apes, Stormtropis spiders... 10 crazy animals named after Star Wars characters
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few Star Wars fans among biologists. These ones have used their opportunity to name a new species to make reference to their beloved franchise.
It's 3 times the size of the UK and home to rare penguins, alien-like fish and the world's most isolated inhabited islands
How one tiny island community makes a vast contribution to protecting ocean biodiversity
Is this the biggest maternity ward in the world? Mega nest of 41,000 huge animals in Amazon is the largest ever found...
How drones revealed over 41,000 giant South American river turtles nesting on the banks of the Guaporé River between Brazil and Bolivia.
It’s not just humans who love a strong jawline...
Why don’t baby birds make less noise to avoid attracting predators?
To be honest making a noise isn't always the best strategy for staying alive...
Mountain chicken, guinea pig, honey bear, bearcat – 10 animals with completely the wrong names, misleading monikers and curious cases of mistaken identity
Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are 10 animals with some very misleading names.
NASA officials sent over 2,000 baby jellyfish into space. Tens of thousands more came back to Earth
Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby jellyfish
A 'wandering meatloaf' and a 'two-headed snake' – meet 6 of Oregon's weirdest animals
There are some truly incredible creatures living in the US state of Oregon – here are some of the strangest.
10 incredible images and videos of ‘nature’s engineers’ that can build structures seen from space
Beavers are known as nature’s engineers due to their dam-making abilities, which transform landscapes
Dance, pluck… then paralyse: the riskiest date night in nature
When it comes to surviving a potentially deadly mating, it helps to have a plan
The 'Great Texas Freeze' killed thousands of beloved songbirds. Scientists are worried about what might happen next
North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events becoming more common, experts are concerned about the bird's long-term survival.
It’s bigger than Florida, straddles 3 countries and is home to a snake as long as a great white shark
The Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, is a refuge for some truly extraordinary animals.
“Hunger drives the lizard to make a second attempt.” Watch brutal BBC footage of an opossum fighting off a huge lizard to save her babies
In footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a monitor lizard tries to steal from an opossum nest
It's as long as a baseball bat, weighs the same as a Labrador and is preyed on by one of the world's deadliest animals
Learn all about one of the least known sea turtl - the flatback turtles
16 stunning photos that reveal the incredible beauty and power of the world’s oldest national park
The USA’s Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world and is home to a vast array of wildlife
Underneath the ruins of ancient Rome surprising giant creatures roam - to the amazement of scientists
Emperors have come and gone but, today,
the leaders of this Roman monument live
and die by pincers, not swords
It has hairy legs and flies with its tongue poking out – and it could be in a garden near you
Meet the well-named hairy-footed flower bee.
"First-of-its-kind event." Whale shark swims "astounding" 1,200km from Madagascar to Seychelles
The gentle giant’s epic journey highlights the need for transboundary conservation strategies, say researchers.
On the brink of extinction: 11 rarest cats in the world, from the beautiful Arabian leopard to the weird flat-headed cat
There are more wild cats out there than just lions and tigers. Get to know some of the world's most elusive and rarest felines.
“She’s seen something….” A cheetah mum must distract a prowling big cat away from her cubs. Will her risk pay off?
In footage captured for the latest series of Big Cats 24/7, we watch a tense encounter between a cheetah mum and a leopard under the cover of darkness
From the only venomous primate to creatures that can kill you when they’re dead – meet 8 of the world’s weirdest deadly animals
From an animal that’s not actually one animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in the world
