A new study describing the discovery of rare platypus fossils has shed some light on the evolutionary history of one of Earth ...

In the dark of night a bulky animal shape lumbers up a rocky track, climbing the steep side of Mount Elgon in Kenya, intent ...

There’s something fishy going on New York City’s East River, and researchers have used DNA collected from the water to work ...

Off the coast of South Africa, these male bottlenose dolphins have left their pods to join groups of other males to play with. Jostling one another, they scuffle – finding a potentially lethal toy to ...

When danger threatens, the gut wall ruptures and the organ is ejected through their rear ends. On contact with seawater, it ...

Celebrated wildlife film-maker Hamza Yassin says we should be doing more to encourage children's love of wildlife ...

Every April, horseshoe crabs descend on Delaware Bay to spawn, forming the largest horseshoe crab aggregation on the planet.

The fourth of five ocean zones – the abyssopelagic zone or the abyss – stretches from 4,000 to 6,000 metres deep ...

Britta Jaschinski's photo of a glowing sea turtle wins top prize in this year's Environmental Photography Award.

At the bottom of a vast limestone chasm in southern China, a self-contained forest has taken root in near-permanent shadow, ...

The orangutan can be seen carefully making his way along the rope structure, which was put up two years ago to provide the ...

A vast, tangled delta of mangrove forests straddling India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is a hauntingly beautiful yet ...