By running at great speeds across water, the basilisk lizard avoids becoming prey – this BBC footage shows exactly how it ...

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 ...

Yes jellyfish can sting when they're dead, says Peter Richardson, and it’s down to the fact that a jellyfish’s body is about ...

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

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) ...

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

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