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"Can you imagine being chased by an apex predator?” Tourists watch incredible escape in Antarctica
Tourists were stunned when a pair of orcas tried to hunt a gentoo penguin alongside their ship. Here’s what happened next.
This area of the North Atlantic ocean is infamous for shipwrecks and conspiracy theories. But does anything live there?
Does anything live in the Bermuda Triangle? Quite a lot actually, as Melissa Hobson explains
Divers saw this ocean giant approaching – and noticed it wasn’t alone...
Researchers have documented “an entire community” of animals travelling with whale sharks – the world’s biggest fish.
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"It repeatedly swam away from and then back to the corpse, touching it and swimming in circles underneath it" – 7 animals that mourn the dead
From dolphins to elephants, some animals show remarkable awareness of death. Discover7 species that appear to turn the death of family members...
It's a staggering 300 metres underground, features amazing 11-metre-tall crystals – and has a deadly 90% humidity level
No that's not a golf ball on its head – one man-made very weird species...
Discover on of the world's weirdest fish that was entirely man made.
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
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
