On 2 December 2022, we discovered Sahara – then just a large lion cub, with a terrible injury. She was found with an arrow ...

The winners of Close-up Photographers of the Year’s (CUPOTY) ‘Death & Decay’ challenge have been announced, with top spot ...

For most of the year (when not hibernating), this small, brown frog perfectly matches its boggy surroundings. But during the ...

The world's third-largest land mammal after the African and Asian elephants, the common hippo is no pushover. Reaching up to 5m long and weighing a mighty 4500kg (about six times the mass of a typical ...

Every year, thousands of giant spider crabs (Leptomithrax gaimardii) aggregate in Port Phillip Bay, an enormous inlet on the ...

While attending the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Luke Foddy had a run-in with a green mamba. Or was it?

The carnivorous marsupial is widely thought to have gone extinct on mainland Australia about 3,000 years ago. Artworks found recently in Northern Territory suggests otherwise.

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are both now categorised as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

We round up nature's most brutal bawlers, from vicious lions and testosterone-filled elephants to sparring ants.

Apex predators in the Himalayas manage to coexist because they target different prey species, a study in the Public Library ...

“I glanced in the mirror and saw a huge, deadly creature crawling out of my shirt. I've never disrobed so quickly in my life.

In an interview originally published in October 2019, BBC filmmaker Doug Allan reflects on an extraordinary encounter with a ...