Comparisons with the woodlouse are obvious because, in effect, that’s what a sea slater is. However, the sea slater’s broad ...

New research is uncovering the matriarchal secrets of zebras – including unprecedented behaviour, says Lucy Cooke ...

The silver-cheeked toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), a member of the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae, is notorious for its ...

Anton Crone shares his experience traversing the dangerous Hoanib Valley and close encounters with the local wildlife .

It’s easy to see how these shimmering creatures earned their name — their sparkling exteriors closely resemble the sequinned ...

The pea crab is a small, parasitic pea-sized crab that’s most content living inside its bivalve host. Nick Baker explains ...

This is the first new penguin species described in more than 100 years – the Northern rockhopper penguin ( Eudyptes moseleyi) ...

BBC footage shows male hippos fighting for dominance, sometimes for hours, in a brutal struggle for mating rights ...

It looks like a gentle giant, but get too close and this 350kg mammal can charge – as one wildlife expert discovered the hard ...

In a predominantly green world, being green seems like it would have its perks, especially if you’re trying to avoid the a ...

In footage captured for BBC’s Kingdom, a pride of lions and their cubs are forced to leave their nursery ground after ...

A big driver in the recent resurgence of rabies is political instability in parts of Eastern Europe. Most of the rabies cases detected in the EU have been located, on average, within 50 kilometres of ...