The colossal squid is the largest squid in terms of mass, weighing in at 495kg. The squid’s tentacles are only released when ...

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to rockpools at low tide, the Abdopus octopus can pull itself out and crawl ...

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how vulnerable they are.

As it passed mere millimetres from my body, the cetacean released a massive cloud of excrement that covered me head to fin, filled my snorkel and turned the water a dark brown. I surfaced and let out ...

Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family and can be found across the globe, from North American to Asia. Grey wolves make up one of the largest wolf species, with 38 subspecies.

The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

But after spotting what she thought was another whale, Hauser realised it was a tiger shark. And it was swimming straight towards her. This led Hauser to believe the humpback had in fact been trying ...

If you want to go somewhere that's both off-the-beaten-track and remarkably beautiful, Mongolia is absolutely worth visiting ...

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

But their closest cousins, bonobos, are more like us, according to scientists. Experiments conducted at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo show that bonobos are willing ...

A quick tap then startles their prey into fleeing straight into the open tentacles.

Qninba notes that falcons cache dead prey with flight feathers intact. “The fact that some live prey had been plucked ...