The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning 9.2 million square kilometres (3.6 million square miles) – an ...
American bison, by contrast, have a long, shaggy coat covering their front quarters, front legs and heads, light or dark ...
Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from ...
I n the Indian Ocean there’s an old fisher’s trick. The wily hunter catches a remora. They tie a line to its tail and throw ...
One morning, I was leading a game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, when we came across a small herd of Thomson's gazelles grazing and nearby a troop of 50-60 olive baboons foraging, some on ...
Spiders don't talk to each other like we do – instead they communicate using sight, touch and smell, says Sara Goodacre. One of the common topics of spider 'conversation' is around the hunt for a mate ...
A new study has found that chimpanzees are able to organise behaviours in complex action sequences and suggests the fundamental abilities underlying human language ...
It looks like a squat, cuddly little bear, chirps like a bird and has webbed feet for swimming – meet the very rare and bizarre wild dog that's like no other ...
During spawning season, small packs of amorous male pike will pursue the much larger females (most individuals over about 5kg ...
He also works as a wildlife guide in the country, specialising in bird and hide photography. It started with birdwatching – ...
If Coco Chanel gave the common blackbird a makeover, the result would be the oropendola. With a minimalist colour palette and ...
But in some cases, the parasite reaches the nervous system and causes a form of meningitis called eosinophilic meningitis. That can mean headaches, stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, fever, strange ...