David Attenborough’s nature documentaries have captured some first-time animal behaviours over the years on film – here are ...

As David Attenborough turns 100, there are plenty of programmes to watch on the BBC that celebrate his remarkable life and ...

The world’s largest animal migration and ocean gyres play vital roles in the global carbon cycle. Scientists went into the ...

In a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers from the University of Arizona ...

White-fronted lemurs only mate for a couple of days every year. This team were in the right place at the right time to see ...

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...

The deepest part of the ocean – the Challenger Deep – is in the hadal zone, a deep-sea region named after the Greek god of ...

Each year, thousands of fish fall from the sky in Utah. But this isn’t a scene from a film – it’s part of efforts to restock ...

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

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

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

Madagascar holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest island in the world, after it split off from Africa during the ...