The colossal squid is the largest squid in terms of mass, weighing in at 495kg. The squid’s tentacles are only released when ...

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to rockpools at low tide, the Abdopus octopus can pull itself out and crawl ...

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how vulnerable they are.

As it passed mere millimetres from my body, the cetacean released a massive cloud of excrement that covered me head to fin, filled my snorkel and turned the water a dark brown. I surfaced and let out ...

But their closest cousins, bonobos, are more like us, according to scientists. Experiments conducted at Lola ya Bonobo ...

Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family and can be found across the globe, from North American to Asia. Grey wolves make up one of the largest wolf species, with 38 subspecies.

The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

A new study has revealed that Africa's most deadly snake, the black mamba, accumulates heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury in its scales. The discovery means scientists can now ...

If you want to go somewhere that's both off-the-beaten-track and remarkably beautiful, Mongolia is absolutely worth visiting ...

But after spotting what she thought was another whale, Hauser realised it was a tiger shark. And it was swimming straight towards her. This led Hauser to believe the humpback had in fact been trying ...

In this rare behaviour, the dolphins push themselves vertically out of the water and ‘walk’ along using their tail.

Qninba notes that falcons cache dead prey with flight feathers intact. “The fact that some live prey had been plucked ...