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"It's like being shot or walking over hot coals with a rusty nail driven into your foot…" World's 10 most agonisingly painful stings from creepy-crawlies
You might want to give these creatures a wide berth
It weighs the same as a gorilla, can reach 3m long and has a huge mouth packed with rasping teeth – and it’s been biting swimmers
The 3 metre freshwater fish wreaking havoc in Spanish rivers
Perfectly camouflaged as it slips through the forest at twilight, this little-seen, mysterious, ambush predator climbs like a cat and swims like an otter
With its liquid movement and striking dappled coat, the ocelot must surely rank as one of the most alluring wild cats on the planet.
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"I realised that I was in a very vulnerable position and retreated as fast as I could. It took a few sweat-pouring minutes of bounding over boulders…"
Josh found himself in a tight spot between a troop of agitated baboons and a prowling leopard
“In places, you couldn't see a single rock because everything is so densely populated… ” Deep sea scientists find something staggering in the Pacific
A remotely operated vehicles found never-before-seen hydrothermal activity on the seabed in Papua New Guinea.
It's one of the most deadliest and feared snakes in the Americas, able to kill a person with one lethal bite…
Keep an ear out for their infamous rattle if you are spending time in the American wilderness!
With deadly, long, lethal jaws that drain their prey dry, this is one of the world’s most spine-chilling animals — and it's known as an assassin
What animal has the biggest brain? Clue – it's 5 times bigger than a human's
Did you know the largest brain of an animal weighs a whopping 7.8kg? But which animal does it belong to?
Could we have farmed dinosaurs? Meet the tastiest dinosaurs that could have ended up on our plates – had we lived alongside them…
if we had started farming dinosaurs what would they have tasted like? We take a look at what the evidence tells us
They can start out as underwater volcanoes, take up to 30 million years to form – and are home to about 1 million people
From volcanic peaks to coral rings, atolls are among the strangest and most fragile landforms on Earth.
They’re a whopping 150 million years older than dinosaurs, look like a shark, have a tail like a rat, teeth like a rabbit and sharp, venomous spines
Chimaeras, or ghost sharks, are distant relatives of sharks and rays Here's all you ever need to know about them
"Please help – we have a hippo in our swimming pool!"
For veterinary surgeon Dr Ulf Tubbesing this call out was definitely different…
They’re age-old rivals –but did you know dogs and cats are actually related? Here's how…
They might not see eye to eye today, but millions of years ago dogs and cats shared more than just our affection - they shared common ancestors…
Does this 25kg fish deliberately go after a man’s testicles? The 'nut-crusher' that mimics the ferocious piranha
It is no coincidence that the red-bellied pacu bears a strong similarity to the red-bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri), especially as juveniles.
It has relatively huge hinged fangs and can strike with astonishing speed, delivering a potentially dangerous dose of venom…
Stocky, solitary and superbly camouflaged, the puff adder is one of Africa’s most formidable and feared snake species.
It's called a chicken, sounds like a chicken, tastes like a chicken and raises its young like a chicken – but it definitely isn't a chicken…
Despite its name, the mountain chicken isn't actually a chicken...
"It's not unknown for males to get stuck in the wrong position - back to front, or sideways on - or for groups to become hopelessly welded together…"
How these rain frogs get stuck in when mating
"Its teeth are serrated – like a steak knife. This lets them easily tear their prey into bitesize chunks…" 9 deadliest, sharpest teeth on the planet
When it comes to teeth there's a whole array of ways they can kill their prey
It’s longer than a double-decker bus, weighs the same as five elephants and found in every ocean – yet hardly anyone has ever seen them…
Learn all about the little-known Bryde whale - including why they're rarely seen
They have a bizarre sex life as each beast have both male and female organs – leading to confusing orgies and extraordinary mating chains developing…
Nick Baker takes a look at the life of a sea hare
It’s tiny and virtually invisible, yet it can cause blinding pain and severe illness in humans, potentially leading to life-threatening complications
You don't want bump into one of these when swimming...
It's tiny, covered in hair, and has venomous spines potent enough to cause long-lasting, painful, effects, like muscle spasms, in humans
This is one caterpillar you shouldn't touch says Stuart Blackman
"It can carry Ebola, a nasty virus that causes bleeding from every orifice and is usually fatal." Meet the world's 7 deadliest bats, famous for carrying lethal diseases
Bats may be tiny and only come out at night but as carriers of some of the world’s most life-threatening viruses, one bite can pack a powerful punch
It sings like a whale, climbs like a cat and was once thought extinct… meet one of the world’s strangest dogs
Fox-faced and wonderfully flexible, the New Guinea singing dog or ‘singer’ is named after its extraordinary rising and falling howl, which has been likened to a yodel or even whale song
