Ocean sunfish, or mola mola, have no tail fin. Instead, they steer with a thick rudder-like fringe called a clavus, which ...

Marine mammal experts responded to the unusual sighting and tried to encourage the pod back to the safety of deeper seas.

With truly enormous goggly eyes, sticky-out swivelling ears and long grippy fingers, Yoda-like tarsiers look almost ...

The Knepp Rewilding Project comprises 3,500 acres of former farmland in West Sussex. Here, Highland cattle, Tamworth pigs and ...

Ants are the most species-rich family among social insects, with more than 15,000 species worldwide. They originated around 140 to 168 million years ago but didn’t rise to ecological dominance until ...

The award is a special category in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the German ...

Following a deep-sea expedition into Argentina’s submarine canyons, and the subsequent international Species Discovery ...

Puffins spend the entire winter out at sea – but visitors to their breeding colonies can watch their adorable antics during ...

Scientists have documented the first record of triplet embryos in wild sea turtles. Polyembryony – when multiple embryos ...

A warming climate is forcing Antarctica’s native plants to adapt. Not only have they risen to the challenge, they’ve adapted ...

The sighting of a jaguar using a wildlife corridor may suggest that Central American populations are less fragmented than ...

Spirostomum ambiguum is a tiny, single-celled organism that lives at the bottom of water bodies. Known for being very ...