Meet the eye-catching comma – one of the UK's first butterfly species to appear in spring. The first butterfly of the year always lifts the spirits – and it’s often a comma. This butterfly seems to ...

From an animal that’s not actually an animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in ...

In footage captured for the latest series of Big Cats 24/7, we watch a tense encounter between a cheetah mum and a leopard ...

The Mississippi River flows for around 2,350 miles through the heart of the US. It drains an area of 1.2 million square miles – that's roughly 40% of the country – and at certain points is 11 miles ...

We’re not the only animals that farm; ants do it too, cultivating vast quantities of fungus to feed their growing ...

Carcross Desert, in Canada, is often referred to as the world’s smallest desert – although it technically isn’t one ...

Nemotodes can certainly adapt to extreme environments, such as the deep sea, Antarctica and mines that stretch kilometres ...

The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.

They may be the size of a Shetland pony and weigh up to 275kg (600lb) but pigmy hippos are very hard to spot in the wild. In ...

The head-burying myth may have stemmed from the way ostriches have to bend down to dig their nests. When ostriches are faced with an actual problem (a predator), they can flatten themselves against ...

The Caspian Sea spans an area of 149,200 square miles (386,400 square kilometres) – making it larger than the area of Japan ...

“The sight of a mass of amorous frogs writhing around together in slippery foam is one that will stay with me for a while.” As temperatures rise, the foam nest begins to dry and forms a protective ...