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Kōhengi with chick on Pukenui Anchor Island 2026

“Viewers have been absolutely hooked.” Over 100,000 tune in to watch rare New Zealand parrot raising her chicks

Reality TV meets conservation – Kākāpō Cam is the most heartwarming thing you'll see all day.
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River Nile

It flows over 4,000 miles, crosses 11 countries – and a deadly apex predator lurks within it

The Nile crocodile is one the river's most deadly – and patient – ambush predators
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Fennec fox is one of a few desert animals

"These fearless snake hunters stun their prey with rapid blows to the head, then finish them off with a bite to the neck" – 10 desert animals that thrive in extreme temperatures

From the deathstalker scorpion to the screaming hairy armadillo, meet the desert animals that thrive in extreme conditions
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Common eastern bumblebees (Bombus impatiens)

Bumblebee queens can survive underwater for an entire week. How they do it is incredible

The bumblebees avoid drowning by combining underwater gas exchange with anaerobic metabolism, according to a new study.
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Kjerulf Fjord in the national park is known as the Iceberg Graveyard because icebergs are driven in by wind and currents and become stranded. Credit: Getty Images

It’s 100 times the size of Yellowstone, almost entirely covered by ice and is home to the ‘Iceberg Graveyard’

Northeast Greenland National Park is a wilderness so large it's more than 100 times the size of Yellowstone
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Bull sharks at Shark Reef Marine Reserve

Researchers studied 184 bull sharks in Fiji – and discovered they might make friends

Scientists studying bull sharks in Fiji found that the animals may have more complex social lives than previously thought.
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Chesapeake Bay

“Notoriously cannibalistic.” Animals are eating their own kind in this enormous US estuary

Researchers used 37 years of data to study predation on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. They discovered the animals are eating each other.
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Desert sandfish (scincus, common skink) at the Erg Chebbi sand dunes in Merzouga, Morocco

It plunges head-first into the ground and swims through the sand faster than an Olympic swimmer swims through water

Imagine diving into a dune and swimming off like a fish. Well here’s the sandfish that does just that.
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Isolated tree root bridge natural formed single decker at day from flat angle

It may look like a bridge, but this crossing isn’t made of brick or concrete – but it lasts for hundreds of years

Discover the incredible way humans use trees in this remote forest in India
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MADRID, SPAIN - 2025/09/20: A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), a large Old World monkey native to west central Africa pictured in its enclosure at Madrid Zoo. (Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

It has brilliantly-coloured buttocks, electric blue faces and weighs the same as a Labrador

Learn all about one of the world's most colourful monkey, the mandrill including what it eats and the threats it faces
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Spotted hyena at night

Huge carnivores are roaming the streets of this Ethiopian city. What they're doing could be saving people $100,000 USD per year

In the city of Mekelle, hyenas and other urban scavengers are helping save the waste disposal sector money while also curbing carbon emissions, new study finds.
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Crawfish micro-CT

"I believe it may have fallen from someone’s grocery bag.” Scientist finds unlikely creature in US parking lot – and only has one thing on his mind...

The microscopy expert put the big-clawed animal through his micro-CT scanner, creating an incredibly detailed image of its body.
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Death Valley National Park on 28 February. A visitor walks amongst a cluster of desert gold wildflowers blooming near Ashford Junction at the southern end of Death Valley National Park

Stunning wildflower 'superbloom' sweeps through Death Valley. It's the best display in a decade

The hottest place on the planet has transformed into a sea of colour, as desert gold and notch-leaf phacelia flowers fill the valley floor.
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Northern pike

This river giant can grow over 1m long, weigh more than 5kg and lay an astonishing 500,000 eggs

Meet the mighty northern pike.
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Everglades National Park in Florida

There is only one place on Earth where crocodiles and alligators live together in the wild – and it's here

Can crocodiles and alligators co-exist in the wild? The answer is yes – but there is only one place on the planet where this happens.
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Ants biting and dragging Spider to nest

9 brutal insect photos that show how these ruthless predators sting, swarm and devour their prey

These incredible images demonstrate the brutality of the creepy crawly and how they can overpower prey
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Sahara Desert

It’s almost the size of the US, spans 11 countries and is home to a creature that looks like a sabre-toothed sausage

The Sahara Desert is one of the world's most inhospitable places – with some astonishing wildlife
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In the wilderness of Murchison Falls National Park

Shock moment troop uses a clever distraction plot to steal a fawn right in front of its helpless mother

Safari guide James Nguya witnessed just how smart baboons can be, when it comes to hunting and eating prey
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Cute close up of a wide Cape Buffalo looking at the camera in the Aberdares National Park, Kenya.

Buffalo v bison: Just what is the difference between these massive 1000kg beasts?

"I dived and latched onto her shell. My world span. We began to corkscrew, round and round. My chest burned and heaved"

Conservationist Elliot Conner gets rather more than he bargained for when he attempted to tag a turtle
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tube web spider

Do spiders talk to each other?

We take a look at how spiders communicate with each other
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A striking group of giraffes congregates on a dirt track in the Serengeti, Tanzania, set against a backdrop of open plains and scattered acacia trees. Their elegant forms and synchronized poses capture the serenity of the African savannah.

"It exposes natural selection as little more than an unskilled electrician choosing to buy a cheap extension lead and hide it under the carpet."

close up of the South American bush dog

It looks like a squat, cuddly little bear, chirps like a bird and has webbed feet for swimming – meet the very rare and bizarre wild dog that's like no other

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