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"It stands on its rock looking not so much like a streamlined submariner as an overfed blackbird"
Known in Welsh as a ‘bird of the torrent’, the dipper is the UK’s only aquatic songbird and always fascinating to watch.
18 ridiculous animal body parts that don’t make any sense (until you learn why...)
Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the comically-large paws of moles.
It's grumpy, looks like it's had a VERY bad hair day, and has formidable jaws that can expand to 12 times their normal size – allowing it to swallow enormous prey
This contender for the fastest-eating fish lures prey with a fin disguised as a worm.
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"It terrorised the seas 90 to 80 million years ago just a few million years before its equally ferocious two-legged namesake did the same thing on land..."
It might share its name with the largest meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived, but this isn’t the T.rex we all know and recognise…
They ate this potato relative in a salad – then lost their minds for 11 days
Potatoes are a kitchen staple – but one of their botanical cousins has a much darker reputation.
A once-decimated creature is returning to New York’s waterways. Now scientists are collecting its DNA
New York Harbour once boasted massive wild oyster populations – but intensive harvesting and harbour pollution led to the collapse of the reefs
Know your Zygomorphic & Bioacoustics from your Anthropocene & Neotony? 81 strange, bizarre scientific & biological terms you probably don't know...
Have you ever puzzled over the meaning of a particular wildlife word or phrase? Then puzzle no more! From the 'Fraser Darling effect' to the 'K-T Boundary', our glossary provides the explanation – in plain, simple English.
Microplastics found in testicles, kidneys, livers, placentas, and even a toddler's poo... how worried should we be?
Are microplastics actually in our brains, and how worried should we be about it?
"They jump 20ft from ledge to ledge, climb slopes at up to 15mph and even turn mid-air…" Meet the world's best climbers for whom gravity just gets in the way
These animals scale their heights with no ropes or harnesses.
Researchers tested the cognitive ability of apes – and it could change the way we think of intelligence
Scientists may have been asking the wrong questions about ape intelligence
It looks like a tomato, has a very weird tongue, and can produce some extremely nasty secretions
Meet the extraordinary tomato frog – one of Madagascar's strangest creatures.
They have secret teeth, can grow 3m long and are covered in slime. Moray eels are awesome – and these 13 incredible photos prove it
These moray eel images are absolutely breathtaking.
It looks like a wolf, acts like a wolf – but don't be fooled this is no wolf...
All you ever needed to know about the coyote
The 3-metre, 200kg torpedo with bullet-deflecting scales and a fiery reputation that can deliver quite a punch to humans
6 dangerous, deadly fish you'll never see – UNTIL it's too late... "Their danger predominantly lies in their ability to totally disguise themselves on the seabed"
Nature is full of oddballs – including these peculiar-looking fish that have adapted to their environments
Huge, often carnivorous and formidable predators: 10 biggest lizards in the world
Lizards are found on all continents apart from Antarctica and the largest ones are huge monsters. Here are ten of the biggest lizards
It has spindly legs, massive ears and bulging eyes – and it buzzes and whistles. Meet the bizarre-looking gerenuk
It looks adorable and very delicate – but is anything but. Here's our beginner's guide to the giraffe gazelle, or gerenuk.
Do birds pee as well as poo?
When it comes to excretions, birds do a two-for-one deal
"its enormous jaws can expand dramatically, creating a balloon-like head..." 10 weirdest, eeriest eels on the planet, including one that generates a deadly 600 volts
Eels are among the ocean's most mysterious inhabitants, with more than 1,000 species found in habitats ranging from tropical coral reefs to the depths of the deep sea.
"They hide close to where you sleep and feed when the opportunity arises. Once it reaches skin, it uses piercing, sucking mouthparts to draw blood"
All you ever needed to know about the infamous bed bug
"He described animals swallowing 94°C water and cooking from the inside out, boiled alive, before being able to escape." 10 deadliest rivers in the world
You don't want total a dip in these rivers
"If a person inadvertently touches this larva's bristles, they can suffer massive internal haemorrhaging, renal failure, haemolysis – and even death"
“An agonising way to die: it causes whole body convulsions, and the victim is painfully and horribly aware…”
Also called the Asian vomit button tree, the strychnine tree contains one of nature’s deadliest poisons, famously featured in many mystery novels.
The world's most house-damaging pest has reached Britain before – could it happen again?
Despite their diminutive size, these ant lookalikes are capable of destroying a house, but just how common are termites in the UK?
