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What is Fat Bear Week and why is everyone so obsessed with it?
For one week each September, Alaskan bears battle it out to be crowned the girthiest grizzly – but why?
Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and conservationist, dies at 91
Dr Goodall was a world-leading expert on chimpanzees and revolutionised our understanding of the animals
How do animals stay in shape and maintain their fitness?
Humans do it, but as far as we know, neither birds, bees nor even educated fleas do it - physical exercise, that is, to stay fit. Or do they?
Nazi warheads found off German coast. What's living on them stuns scientists
With the aid of a submersible, researchers found thousands of animals thriving on the abandoned explosives in the Baltic Sea.
How stress makes koalas more at risk from a fatal STD
A new study has revealed that stress in koalas appears to drive up koala retrovirus levels, leaving them more vulnerable to chlamydia, which causes blindness, infertility and death
“I waited an hour, freezing in the water": Diver spots sharks motionless on seabed. What happened next has never been filmed before
The incredible footage was captured near New Caledonia in the south-west Pacific Ocean.
Baited cameras dropped deep into Caribbean Sea. Then this showed up
The Atlantic six-gill shark was one of four species of shark recorded for the first time off the island of Anguilla in the eastern Caribbean Sea, say researchers.
Exquisite dome-headed dinosaur unearthed in Mongolian desert is oldest ever found
The skull of the newly described dinosaur species was found “exposed on a cliff like a cabochon jewel” in the Eastern Gobi Desert.
Stripy animals with big eyes found on remote oil rig in North Sea. What they were carrying stuns researchers
Researchers found hundreds of tiny marmalade hoverflies on the remote rig, and most of them were carrying pollen – here's why that's important.
20 mind-blowing images from Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025
The winners of this year's competition include breathtaking photos of hunting orcas, venomous octopuses and adorable 'lady bugs of the sea'.
Scientists sink lights to bottom of Chicago River. What they find is incredible
Researchers say what they discovered highlights the remarkable recovery of this once heavily polluted waterway on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois.
Powerful images show beauty and brutality of birds like you've never seen them before
See 14 extraordinary photos and videos of birds from the Audubon Photography Awards 2025.
Odd animal seen 'flying' over seafloor in Caribbean. But that's not the strangest thing it does
Flying gurnards tap the sand as they skim along the bottom of the ocean. Researchers say the unusual behaviour has a vital purpose.
Night mission in India leads scientists to one of the rarest songs on Earth
Birdwatchers have rediscovered the big-eyed, long-legged Jerdon’s courser in south-east India, putting it back on the list of critically endangered birds.
Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from deadly chlamydia
The newly developed, single-dose vaccine could be a key tool in protecting the tree-dwelling marsupials from the chlamydia epidemic, say researchers.
Enormous piles of rotting seaweed mount up on Florida beaches – and they're snaring sea turtle hatchlings
Record amounts of sargassum seaweed washing up on the coast of Florida are making it harder for vulnerable sea turtle hatchlings to reach the ocean, new research finds.
There's a mysterious animal in the tropical forests of Panama that waves at predators – in a very scary way
The creature's strange leg-waving display has baffled scientists for years. Now they know why it does it...
85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs found in China. What they reveal is wild
What the researchers discovered could change our understanding of not only dinosaur evolution and extinction, but global environmental change too…
Octopuses could help us build robots that rescue people from collapsed buildings. Here's how
New research reveals octopuses use all their arms for different tasks – a discovery that could inform the design of life-saving robots.
Satellite images capture great wildebeest migration from space. A close look reveals something startling
Taken 400 miles above the Earth's surface, the images suggest East Africa's Serengeti-Mara wildebeest population may be less than half the size previously estimated.
Research vessel spends 45 days in remote Arctic – and finds living thing moving inside the ice
Using ice cores and underwater drones, scientists found something gliding within the frozen water. They say it changes what we know about how life survives in extreme environments.
"Truly astounding": rivers in Alaska are turning orange. Some are so bright they're visible from space
Scientists warn of widespread ecological damage as thawing Arctic permafrost turns once-pristine rivers toxic with metals.
Scientists just discovered a new (amazing) use for this strange monkey's gigantic nose
Only found on the island of Borneo, the proboscis monkey is one of the world's most bizarre-looking animals. Now a new study has revealed a hidden function for its peculiar nose.
When a colossal sea creature washed up on a beach in Britain, experts were called in to solve the mystery
Arriving at the scene, they identified the animal as a fin whale, the second largest creature on Earth after the blue whale.