I was recently documenting an African elephant tranquillisation in Zimbabwe. We were on foot, and another elephant suddenly appeared and attacked the team. We were literally running for our lives. If ...

More rigorous experiments confirmed that the more steeply sided the egg, the more likely it was to stay put.” The shape might yet turn out to serve multiple functions: extra strength, as a defence ...

“Look! A peregrine!” Indy Kiemel-Greene, our wildlife guide at Hebrides Cruises shouts excitedly as a bird of prey swoops ...

The team, who published their findings recently in the Caribbean Journal of Science, say the record suggests that “even ...

Patricia was here to witness the arrival of Manno, a trafficked chimpanzee we had just rescued from a private zoo in Iraq.

"They definitely would have chased us." New dinosaur the size of a tiger with giant claws and feathers discovered from fossil ...

This 30-kilogram predator hunts mostly at night, ambushing prey before swallowing it whole with its specially adapted jaws.

A study based on traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing in whale teeth has revealed detailed information ...

Just a few days of contact with healthy coral could be enough to jumpstart recovery after bleaching – new study.

Scientists studied nearly 2,000 whale lunge-feeding events and noticed that something was different when California sea lions were nearby.

This reptile has a broad, powerful head, muscular tail and heavily armoured body, and blends into the murky waters of its ...

When you look at the numbers, sharks should be much more scared of us than we are of them. Humans kill around 100 million ...