Here, the line between the natural world and the stories people tell themselves begins to blur. It’s easy to imagine how ...

Anyone familiar with the grey and brown squirrels of parks and neighbourhoods would have to wonder if they were seeing ...

You would think they were two completely different creatures, not knowing they were the same species. That’s precisely what ...

There is a creature on a sun-warmed boulder in the rocky mountains of South America that looks like it wandered out of a ...

The first sighting of a horseshoe whip snake on Ibiza in 2003 had local wildlife watchers scratching their heads. This is the ...

Black cats have been travelling through human history for centuries with a reputation that bore little relation to who they ...

When you think of animals that can overpower a crocodile you might not think humans are an obvious choice but the reality is ...

This adorable neckless chick is melting hearts with its tiny meatball like appearance. Fifteen baby chicks coming home meant ...

Where the wild still walks free India’s tiger reserves are nature at its most magnificent. There are places in the deep ...

In early June, visitors to a peaceful wetland in Saijo, a city in western Japan’s Ehime Prefecture, began seeing little red ...

But this shark swimming near the boat was not one of the species the team was expecting. Blakeway and colleagues took ...

For prey animals that see the world differently than we do, the orange colour doesn’t pop as much as it does for us. To ...