https://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/fish-rainBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-22T09:28:58+00:00"The heavens opened – and it started raining fish, hundreds of them…" And the possible reason was even more bizarrehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/people/isaac-szabo-bearBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-22T07:24:52+00:00"First, it crawled around on the roof. Then it started pushing and clawing at the windows. I pounded and yelled, but couldn’t scare it away."https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/do-animals-eat-snotBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-22T03:17:00+00:00The strange reason animals eat their own snot – and it may be more than just a disgusting habithttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/africa/socotra-islandBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-22T00:25:00+00:00The strange island where trees bleed, deadly cucumber trees grow and nature has evolved in ways found nowhere else on Earthhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/people/knut-sverre-horn-photographerBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T19:48:44+00:00“I endured one and a half hours submerged in the freezing water, with only my head visible.”https://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/texas-tarantulas-big-bend-national-parkBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T17:11:49+00:00“There were hundreds crawling across the trail.” Huge, hairy animals surround stunned hiker in Texas deserthttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/bald-eagle-guideBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T14:25:49+00:00It can spot prey over a mile away and swoop in at a staggering 100 miles an hour to make their kill - leaving their prey little chance of escapehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/bobcat-attacks-rattlesnake-floridaBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T14:13:59+00:00Remote camera catches bobcat attacking biggest rattlesnake species on Earthhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/biggest-sharksBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T13:34:14+00:00It's longer than a shipping container, has a metre-wide mouth and a dorsal fin the length of a baseball bat: 9 biggest, most gigantic sharks on the planethttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/darwins-bark-spider-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T12:51:00+00:00"After mating he ensures no other suitors follow suit by chewing off his own genitals and uses them to plug the female"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/ichthyosaur-pregnant-chinaBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T12:46:19+00:00Ichthyosaur pregnant with almost a dozen babies discovered in China – and they were nearly ready to be bornhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/bald-eagle-four-fledglings-michiganBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T11:16:58+00:00Scientists discover bald eagle nest on banks of Michigan river – and are stunned at what they find inside ithttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/giant-anteater-temperature-adaptationBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T11:14:10+00:0025-year camera-trap study of elusive Amazonian mammal reveals it’s changing its behaviourhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/monteverde-cloud-forest-preserveBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T10:38:53+00:00It ‘rains’ horizontally, is home to the largest cat in the Americas and provides life to two oceanshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/jaguar-fighting-puma-pantanalBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T09:02:16+00:00Tourists witness jaguar fighting puma in Brazilian wetlandshttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/gophers-mount-st-helens-eruptionBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T07:15:17+00:00Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, then a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to lifehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/black-vulture-incubates-snail-shellBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T05:49:18+00:00Birdwatchers spotted a black vulture nesting on the roadside. What it was sitting on amazed them allhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/rewilding-wildfiresBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00Is rewilding really to blame for the recent wildfires?https://www.discoverwildlife.com/fish/cookie-cutter-shark-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T19:51:42+00:00It uses its razor-sharp saw-like teeth as a cookie cutter to rip circular chunks of flesh from its preyhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/weirdest-animal-internal-organsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T19:28:01+00:00Exploding anuses, 9 brains and a stomach that can come out of a mouth – nature's 7 strangest body parts that give animals incredible, bizarre powershttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/giant-centipede-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T18:23:05+00:00It's as long as a 2 litre soda bottle, has 21 legs, is venomous enough to kill a bat - and a small child – and has eaten flesh from a human corpsehttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/osprey-fishing-behaviourBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T18:09:54+00:00"With its eyes fixed on ripples in the water below, it suddenly folds its wings, plummets and, a split-second before contact, thrusts its legs forward…"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/amphibians/olm-salamander-factsBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T17:39:01+00:00The length of a 2 litre soda bottle, it's called the human fish and locals believed it was the offspring of 'cave dragons'https://www.discoverwildlife.com/photography/bmc-ecology-photography-competition-winnersBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T15:00:00+00:00Striking image of an orange-tailed damselfly peering through leaf wins photography competitionhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/drake-passageBBC Wildlife Magazineen2026-08-20T12:37:06+00:00It’s 600 miles wide, takes two days to cross and has claimed the lives of sailors