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"Despite being decapitated he survived a remarkable 18 months…" 10 headless animals that can survive without their heads — at least for a while
Meet 10 persistent animals that don’t die right away when decapitated…
"In fact it’s highly likely that eyelash mites are having sex on your face right now." Discover 12 fascinating facts you never knew about animal sex
Discover sex's most surprising secrets with science writer Jules Howard.
When experts tagged diving whales, they discovered something astonishing about their song
For the first time, researchers have matched an entire whale song to an entire dive – and found the song changes in step with what the whale’s body is doing underwater
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Some animals give each other names, like humans do. Now scientists know why…
From elephants and parrots to dolphins and marmosets, there are plenty of creatures who use naming systems
"Once trapped, a dolphin will struggle to escape and could die from suffocation. Even if they escape, the injuries suffered can be catastrophic"
What are ghost nets? Why do they cause so many problems and can anything done? We talk to the experts to find out
Do any animals have periods like humans?
Yes some animal species do menstruate and have periods, like humans, says Stuart Blackman
Joel Sartore has photographed 18,000 species. His latest is one of the weirdest and rarest yet
After a decade of photographing animals around the world, Joel Sartore has captured his 18,000th species: the critically endangered red handfish.
Can baby birds ‘talk’ to one another inside their eggs?
Newly-hatched chicks make plenty of noises once they’ve hatched, but can they communicate within their eggs?
When scientists put a camera tag on a whale, they never expected to see this
When NOAA researchers used suction-cup tags to study cetaceans, they caught the incredible moment a whale breached.
It’s twice the size of Texas, weighs more than 770 twinjets – and contains almost 2 trillion pieces of plastic
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest accumulation of marine plastic
"Their venom is a highly potent neurotoxin, 15 times more toxic than a rattlesnake’s..." 10 most dangerous, deadliest animals in the Grand Canyon…
Mountain lions, poisonous lizards and tarantula-eating wasps: introducing the Grand Canyon’s most deadly wildlife
"Its bristles are like thousands of tiny, hollow needles poking out of every inch of skin, ready to inject you with neurotoxin that burns like fire for several hours…"
A sting burns like fire and they can turn their throat inside out to gobble down a meal. This is the fireworm
Watch incredible close-up footage of a giraffe doing the splits just to take a sip of water…
Evolution gave giraffes a 5-metre plumbing problem…
Staggering drone footage shows 24m giants speeding through Indonesian waters
Wildlife watchers were lucky enough to be joined by three pygmy blue whales.
As a huge storm approached the US coast, California's great white sharks did this
For the first time, scientists have documented what white sharks do when storms are on the way.
Is this the world's most aggressive animal? The size of a fox, this badass raids beehives, steals from lions, shrugs off snake venom and never backs down…
Renowned for fighting larger animals, the honey badger (also known as the ratel) is a notorious mammal found across much of Africa and Asia.
"Constriction prevents blood from reaching vital organs, including the heart, and that’s why you die…" 5 deadly snakes that can crush and eat people
Being killed and swallowed whole by a snake is the stuff of nightmares, but how likely is it? And what snakes are capable of it?
5 ancient prehistoric, pioneering human species that once lived alongside us, interacted with us, and - in some cases - even mated with us…
We may be the only human species alive today, but just a few hundred thousand years ago there was a remarkable diversity of humans living across the world…
"It swoops down on its prey and grasps it with claws as it tears off the head…" 7 animals brave enough to take on – and kill – the deadly king cobra
The longest-recorded king cobra was an impressive 5.85 metres long, raising the question, what sort of animal would dare to take one on?
It has a built-in suction cup, vampire-like fangs, can swallow its prey whole – and has one very disgusting dining habit
Rocksuckers can swallow limpets whole before later regurgitating the shell
“Probably ate it headfirst." Here's what scientists found inside this deep-sea fish’s bulging belly
Researchers at the Natural History Museum wanted to solve the intriguing mystery of what was inside this rare fish’s enormous stomach without cutting it open – here’s how they did it.
Wolves were the poster child for the ‘alpha male’ concept – until researchers realised they’d got it wrong
Alpha males do exist in the animal kingdom – but not in the species you might think
It looks like a mouse but don't be fooled – this is no ordinary mouse. This is one badass, very aggressive rodent that can take on deadly scorpions – and win…
Meet the tiny predator that howls at the moon before striking a deadly attack – discover the deadliest mouse in the world.
Would any animals survive a nuclear explosion?
Could any animals survive a nuclear explosion? Ellen Husain investigates
