A pair of long-eared owls were among the undoubted stars of Springwatch in 2025. For one thing, these birds look absolutely stunning, with their impressive ear tufts (not real ears) and fiery orange ...

The astonishing image is just one of the winners from this year’s competition, which shines a light on British wildlife ...

Recently there have been fascinating discoveries about the evolution of great tit song. Researchers at a long-running research project in Wytham Woods near Oxford found that great tits of a similar ...

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

The researchers discovered a hidden world of life among the roots of Chile's ancient alerce trees. Here's why that's important.

And as David Attenborough narrates in footage from the BBC TV series Planet Earth filmed in Mauritania, “swarms join up with ...

For comparison, the coastline of the USA’s Washington state measures 400 kilometres (250 miles). The cave is 118 metres (379 ...

Even elite human sprinters take around five to seven seconds to reach their maximum running speed. Crocs, on the other hand, ...

Tourists were stunned when a pair of orcas tried to hunt a gentoo penguin alongside their ship. Here’s what happened next.

The Bermuda Triangle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, has become infamous for the planes and ships that are said to have ...

Researchers have documented “an entire community” of animals travelling with whale sharks – the world’s biggest fish.

The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...