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Why do little egrets have yellow feet?
BBC Wildlife contributor Mike Toms answers your wild question.
6 of the world's most venomous fish, from the deadly stonefish to the beautiful and dangerous lionfish
These fish are best avoided...
It’s home to one of nature’s greatest spectacles and tree-climbing crabs – discover this weird and wonderful Australian island
It’s famous for its annual red crab migration – but where is Christmas Island? And where does its name come from?
Do birds go grey in old age?
Science writer Stuart Blackman answers your wild question.
Before they shrunk: 6 huge prehistoric ancestors of animals you know today
Long before evolution downsized them, these giant prehistoric ancestors roamed the Earth, giving rise to the animals we know today.
It drinks the blood of its children to survive - despite causing them pain and trauma – is this nature's cruellest parent?
Has an animal ever been more aptly named?
Can insects repair themselves after injury? Can they mend their 'bones' like us?
Researchers have discovered how insects heal their injured bodies.
12 weirdest body parts, including fake penises, creepy extra-long fingers – and a moth with an extraordinary 30cm long tongue...
To enhance their chances of survival - and attracting the opposite sex - evolution has helped animals develop some very strange body parts
“The huge shadow of an irate black rhino emerged. My only option was to pretend to be a tree.”
Jess Stevens was tracking rhinos in the Namibian bush when she heard the familiar snort of a nearby rhino...
Ambush spiders found hiding beneath sand on Californian coast. DNA reveals exactly what they are
The newly identified species is a type of trapdoor spider, which lives in burrows sealed with a hinged door.
10 smallest, tiniest birds in the world – including one that weighs just 1.95g
Birds vary enormously in size and shape. The ostrich can grow up to 9ft tall. But what about at the other end of the spectrum? Here are the world’s 10 very smallest birds.
Antarctic seabirds have an ingenious way of finding prey in the vast and desolate Southern Ocean
Different species flock together, using team work to sense food in the forbidding seascape, a new study finds.
Baboons filmed sharing meat like hunter-gather humans
The footage, captured in Senegal’s Niokolo Koba National Park as part of a study by the German Primate Center, shows Guinea baboons distributing meat in different ways.
Singing lions, posing monkeys and a ‘smoking’ duck: finalists of Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 revealed
Once again, the world’s funniest wildlife photography competition has delivered a spectacular showcase of nature’s most comical moments.
10 deadliest apex predators in the wild: which ruthless mammals are the best – and most brutal – killing machines?
Which dangerous apex predators are the best hunters and which famous predator has to work hardest to get a meal? The answers will surprise you!
US officials parachuted 76 beavers into the Idaho wilderness – then something astounding happened
In post-World War II North America, beavers were wreaking havoc in rural communities. So the state department came up with an ingenious solution involving parachutes
Pandas have evolved an extra body part – and evolutionary experts think it happened when switching to a plant-based diet
When giant pandas switched from eating meat to a mainly plant-based diet, they evolved an extra body part to help them chow down
There's a rare and mystifying animal in the Pyrenees that looks like a tiny, furry elephant – known as a 'trumpet rat'
Webbed feet, a flexible snout and waterproof fur – the curious Pyrenean desman is surely one of Europe's oddest mammals.
Scientists find 650-year-old sandal in vulture nest deep in Spanish mountains. And that's not all
Centuries-old bearded vulture nests hold troves of historic human artefacts and environmental information, new study finds.
In 1875, 12.5 trillion animals engulfed the Rocky Mountains. Is ‘Albert’s swarm’ the largest wildlife gathering ever?
Known as Albert's swarm, a plague of locusts covered the Midwestern USA and wreaked havoc
This is the rarest colour in nature – an expert explains why
The natural world is full of colour – but some are more common than others. So what's the rarest hue?
11 staggering tiger photographs reveal the athletic power and brutal ferociousness of this deadly apex predator
This charismatic woodland creature invaded England’s cities during World War II, and has been creating havoc ever since
The British urban fox is particularly prevalent in Bristol, but metropolitan life is not as cushy as it may seem
Formidable crocodile-like predator discovered in Egyptian desert
Fossils of the four-metre-long prehistoric crocodile were found in the sun-baked Western Desert.