https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/hippos-breathe-underwaterBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T11:50:35+00:00"Observations suggest that they can float to the surface for air and then sink down again – all without waking up…"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/minke-whale-guideBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T11:21:23+00:00It's as sleek as a torpedo, as long as a bus, and weighs the same as an elephant: The ocean creature that slices through water at a speedy 35 km/hhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/cley-marshes-rising-sea-levelsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T08:37:52+00:00“The village of Happisburgh is falling into the sea.” The changing face of England as sea levels risehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/ways-the-world-could-endBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T08:06:35+00:00"Water will evaporate, leaving a dry barren surface - it will become an even hotter version of Venus…" 10 ways Earth – and life on it – could diehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/largest-oceanBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T07:21:22+00:00It contains over half of Earth’s water and all of the continents could fit into its basin in one mega-puzzlehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/bearded-bellbird-trinidadBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T05:00:00+00:00It has a fleshy beard hanging from its face and sounds like a car alarm – meet the bizarre bearded bellbirdhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/lion-vs-hippo-botswanaBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T02:08:00+00:00When a pride of lions went down to the waterhole, they bumped into a hippo. Here's what happened nexthttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/sunfishBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-07T00:11:00+00:00It looks like something from another planet, eats with a beak and spits out every bite – and has teeth in its throat… nature doesn't get much strangerhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/no-penguins-in-arcticBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T19:55:36+00:00Why aren't there any penguins in the Arctic?https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/biggest-wild-dogs-earthBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T19:26:04+00:0010 biggest wild dogs on the planet, including one beauty close to extinction – "Their eerie howling from a wintery mountainside brings a shiver to the spine…"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/burrowing-parrot-colonyBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T16:00:18+00:00It's 12km long, contains 37,000 homes and 74,000 individuals: The bustling, colourful metropolis you've never heard of…https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/leopard-photographsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T15:08:58+00:00Record-breaking runs, swimming successes and theatrical tussles: These 13 beautiful photographs reveal the leopard’s astonishing athletic abilitieshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/dodo-skull-anatomyBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T13:47:49+00:00Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist. Scientists just looked inside them – and discovered thishttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/biggest-spiders-web-in-worldBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T13:12:51+00:00It stretches a whopping 106 square metres and spans two countries – and it's home to over one hundred thousand scuttling residentshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/nile-perchBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T10:39:00+00:00It grows to 2m and weighs 200kg… but its greatest weapon devastated an entire ecosystemhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/matt-rutherford-pilot-whalesBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T10:34:44+00:00"You can hear them talking to each other through your hull.” Sailor alone at sea for a week. Then this happenshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/humpback-whale-collaborative-benthic-huntingBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T09:23:30+00:00Researchers followed humpback whales to the seabed – and saw them hunting in a way never seen beforehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/african-wild-dog-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-06T08:50:48+00:00It may look like a dog, but don’t be fooled – Africa’s most efficient killer, which can travel up to a staggering 72km/h, is neither a wolf nor a doghttps://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'