https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/how-wild-is-your-pet-catBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T07:36:00+00:00Is there a lion in your living room? How your pet cat has more in common with their wild cousins than you might thinkhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/african-penguins-boulders-beachBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T06:50:00+00:00Penguins are taking over a beach town in South Africa – and the locals love ithttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/great-white-shark-baliBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T05:47:09+00:00Scuba divers in Bali thought this huge shape was a whale shark. But it wasn'thttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/grey-squirrel-contraceptionBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T03:48:00+00:00A hazelnut-flavoured contraceptive for grey squirrels? New science offers hope for UK’s dwindling redshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/guess-the-animal-komodo-dragonBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T02:23:00+00:00This eye belongs to a deadly predator – can you guess which one in less than 14 seconds?https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/animals-that-could-kill-a-mammothBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T00:15:00+00:00"While healthy adults were off the menu for most predators, the old, sick and young often faced grisly ends." 9 animals that could kill giant mammothshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/megarachne-prehistoric-sea-scorpionBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T18:21:18+00:00It had a massive 50cm leg span and was hailed as a giant, terrifying prehistoric spider – but scientists got it spectacularly wrong…https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/blue-whale-guideBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T15:01:23+00:00At a staggering, gigantic 33 metres long it's not only the biggest animal in the world today, it is the largest animal to have ever lived...https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/pumas-make-roads-saferBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T15:00:00+00:00Pumas are saving human lives in Washington State. Camera-trap footage reveals how…https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/largest-mammal-colony-worldBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T14:46:38+00:00It's the size of Ireland and home to a whopping 400 million individuals – making it one of the most densely populated places on Earthhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/huemul-patagonia-releaseBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T13:47:13+00:00Elusive and rare mammal released into the Patagonian mountainshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/deadliest-beaches-worldBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T12:56:26+00:00"It’s estimated that 35,000 creatures died on this beach…" 10 deadliest beaches on the planet including Skeleton Coast – world’s largest ‘ship graveyard'https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/okefenokee-swamp-unesco-world-heritage-siteBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T11:09:36+00:00It straddles two US states, contains 15,000 alligators, and is home to a snake as long as a bedhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/mammoth-cave-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T11:08:13+00:00There’s a cave in Kentucky that’s 426 miles long, 118 metres deep – and fish-eating spiders lurk in ithttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/largest-ant-supercolony-worldBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T10:54:34+00:00It spans 6000 km of the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy and houses billions of individuals – the animal that builds citieshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/dinosaur-sexBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T10:47:22+00:00How did dinosaurs have sex with all those dangerous spikes, claws and plates? It wouldn't have been easy…https://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/great-african-lakesBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T08:56:49+00:00They contain a quarter of all freshwater on Earth – but home to hundreds of ocean-like creatureshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/cladoselache-shark-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T08:16:19+00:00It looked like a shark, acted like one and lived 370 million years ago – before even the dinosaurs… but was it the first shark ever? The jury's still out…https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/giant-phantom-jelly-antarctic-peninsulaBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T05:21:18+00:00When a giant iceberg calved from the Antarctic Peninsula, it revealed a deep-sea world never seen by humanshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/deadliest-predators-of-all-timeBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T03:30:00+00:00"It's considered the largest and most ferocious terrestrial predator that has ever lived…" 10 deadliest predators that ever livedhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/hang-son-doong-caveBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-05T01:20:00+00:00It’s large enough to swallow a skyscraper, wide enough to fly a jumbo jet through, and is filled with underground clouds and a riverhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/5-mass-extinctionsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T15:40:44+00:00Mega volcanoes, asteroid impacts and 'the great dying' – 5 deadly mass extinctions that changed life on Earth foreverhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/photography/polar-bear-photographsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T15:16:52+00:00You’ve never seen polar bears like this before: 14 captivating photos that reveal the deadly apex predator's softer sidehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reckless-wildlife-touristBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T14:52:41+00:00"People risk being attacked, mauled and possibly killed…" The rise and rise of the reckless wildlife touristhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/goldcrest-or-firecrest-differenceBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T14:37:17+00:00Goldcrest or firecrest? What's the difference between these two diminutive, cute birds?https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/stellers-sea-eagle-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T14:02:12+00:00With deadly talons the size of a human hand and a prehistoric-looking beak, this is one of nature's most terrifying giants, able to reach speeds of 100mphhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/guess-the-animal-butterflyBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T13:30:50+00:00Can you guess which animal this is in less than 12 seconds?https://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/snails-and-slugs-teethBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T10:47:33+00:00"Their teeth are barbed and hollow, and primed with a toxic cocktail strong enough to kill a human. Worst of all they spit out their teeth like poison darts"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/oceanic-whitetip-shark-breach-maldivesBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T10:20:31+00:00Divers saw a shark approaching – and were stunned when it did thishttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/neofelis-diardi-borneoBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-04T10:01:15+00:00Scientists tracked these elusive ‘ghost of the forest’ wild cats for over 15 years – here is what they found out