Since its formation, Surtsey has been providing researchers with invaluable information on how plant and animal life ...

Are there big cats in the UK countryside? The exotic – and sometimes deadly – animals that supposedly roam the British ...

Did you know the longest brooding period or ‘pregnancy’ of any known animal is a whopping four and a half years?

A team of palaeontologists led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and Cambridge University may have just found ...

The king cobra is widely considered to be the smartest snake in the world, but there are other snake species that use clever ...

In a pet shop on the outskirts of a small city, clear plastic crates with air holes are piled one on top of another – five ...

There’s a cave in Kentucky that’s 426 miles long – and fish-eating spiders lurk in it; Is there a place on Earth that is ...

This houseplant is solving equations without a calculator right under your nose. The first informal use of Voronoi diagrams ...

Huge table-top mountains, tumbling waterfalls and extraordinary wildlife – welcome to Venezuela's Canaima National Park.

For the first time ever, scientists have spotted an individual humpback whale in both Australia and Brazil. To get from one breeding ground to the other, it would have had to swim for more than ...

Koalas aren’t bears. They’re marsupials; mammals that give birth to tiny, under-developed babies, which then continue to grow ...

Is the deadliest mammal the tiger or the polar bear? Or maybe it's elephants? Or bears? Or something else that you might not ...