Most people can only hold their breath for a minute or two, but some land animals have incredible lung capacity. Whether for hunting, hiding, or survival, these creatures can stay underwater far ...

Greater monitoring of the risk of diseases spread by insects is needed in environments where animals and people coexist, say researchers after studying the effect of livestock on spiders in the ...

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth ... When the family gets too large, herds split into smaller groups. Male elephants tend to leave their herd in their teenage years and spend ...

The African bush elephant is one of the heaviest land animals with adult male weighing up to 11 tonnes, and adult females can weigh up to 5.4 tonnes ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

But when they grow up they develop lungs and can live on land. Frogs and newts are both types of amphibians. Our last group is the minibeasts - or invertebrates - these are animals like insects ...