Flanged males are particularly attractive to females and father more than their fair share of offspring. This raises the question of why more males don’t adopt the flanged look. The answer may be that ...

Great tit chicks, for example, stop begging in response to a parent’s alarm call. And a study of blackcaps found that under very high predation pressure chicks completely refrain from chirping until ...

Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...

Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby ...

Head to the Pacific coast and you may encounter a gumboot chiton – a blob-like marine mollusc known affectionately as the ...

They do this as they need deep water to build their homes, known as lodges, in. The dams raise the water levels of a river, with the lodges providing a safe shelter from predators. Sophie is the ...

Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a male spider ever does. Females are ...

North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...

Other eye-catching species include the 140cm-tall jabiru stork, the peculiar-looking South American tapir and the yellow anaconda, a semi-aquatic snake that can grow more than 4m long – that's roughly ...

It uses its climbing abilities to eat the eggs and young of other animals. And in this footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a lace monitor finds a nest full of opossum babies.

Paler than other sea turtles, the flatback turtle is a light olive-green that has a remarkably round shell (which is unusually thin and brittle) with distinctly upturned edges, and a rounded, stubby ...

The USA’s Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world and is home to a vast array of wildlife ...