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Wildlife presenter Bill Oddie dies aged 85. We look back at his career and the legacy he leaves…
What was the first-ever deadly apex predator? Clue – it lived 500 million years ago…
Paul Chamber takes a look at the world's first top predator, who ruled the Earth's waters 500 million years ago
Everyone says dock leaves cure nettle stings – but do they really work?
Ouch, a nettle sting! Time to look for a dock leaf, but will it actually work? In our expert nettle guide we explain why it stings, whether dock leaves help, and more
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Scientists collect tiny creatures 2,000 metres below ocean’s surface. What they find surprises them
Tiny limpet larvae may hold the key to hydrothermal vent ecosystem formation
What's the oldest tree on the planet? Clue – it's older than Stonehenge…
There is some debate surrounding the world's oldest tree. Here's why
“Something I’d never even heard rumours of." Sea turtle emerges from water with strange creature clinging to its back
Remoras – also known as suckerfish – attach themselves to marine animals to hitch a ride, but seeing them holding on tight while out of the water is rare.
"Working together they can subdue prey a whopping 700 times their weight - even birds aren't safe..."
If one spider is enough to get you sweating, how about webs full of thousands of them?
This sloth rode a ladder to the rainforest...
When a sloth found itself lost in a hotel lobby, staff used the strangest mode of transport to get it home.
"It starts to spin in the water just before emerging head first and leaping up to 3m into the air, rotating continuously"
Famous for their spectacular spinning leaps, spinner dolphins are among the ocean's most acrobatic mammals. Discover where they live, what they eat, why they spin through the air and the threats these charismatic dolphins face.
“Apparently, if you go to the toilet in this river, it will swim up the stream of urine right inside you – and launch using two backward-facing spines.”
We always think of the ocean’s dark depths as the habitat housing the most nightmare-inducing and impressive creatures – but rivers can too…
Swirling barracuda 'tornado' caught on camera off Indonesian island
Dive guide films mesmerising school of barracuda several metres high while exploring the waters around Maratua Island, Indonesia.
Epic footage shows the "largest great hammerhead ever filmed in the Bahamas"
The four-metre great hammerhead shark was caught on camera in 2025.
"You may experience headaches, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, and fluid on the lungs…" 10 deadliest animals in the Atlantic Ocean
From the extremely venomous fish to huge predatory sharks, these are some of the most dangerous animals in the Atlantic Ocean
The shark that can walk in and out of water…
There are a few species of 'walking' fish, but did you know there was a walking shark? Read on...
It looks like a bundled-up sheet of bubble wrap or a weird ball of jelly bubbles and often washes up on beaches – but what on earth is it?
"It resembled a biplane when airborne, with a wingspan that measured a massive 7m across. It was incredibly heavy too; tipping the scales at 72kg"
Its deadly sting causes paralysis and 2,600 deaths a year…
Do scorpions deserve their fearsome reputation? Stuart Blackman takes a look
It's as long as a stretched limo and swings its lethal chainsaw snout from side to side to slice its prey in half
Largetooth sawfish are one of the most unusual-looking creatures in the sea but their iconic snout also puts them at risk from humans
"It's believed that something went terribly wrong and the mother died while giving birth..." 7 groundbreaking fossil discoveries that changed the world
The trailblazing discoveries that have changed the way we understand life on planet Earth
It looked like a cat and acted like a cat – but this cat was different. It was the first-ever cat on the planet – the ancestor of all cats today…
This isn’t the kind of furball you’d want sitting on your lap…
He thought he was just filming a strange sea creature – BUT then it did something completely unexpected…
Photographer Ian Haggerty stumbled across the bizarre-looking sea cucumber while exploring a reef.
Nature's deadliest poisons and toxins can kill in minutes – here's the terrifying reason why…
The words toxin and venom are often used interchangeably, but actually mean two different things says JV Chamary explains
Inside the incredible underwater cities, filled with apartment blocks, that stretch along a massive 150km of coastline
These snails stay in one spot for life and build tiny apartments that support lots of other sea creatures
"It's as secretive as a ghost, so secretive that, prior to 2012, it had never been photographed." When India's grumpiest cat moved into a house, the family moved out
On the edge of a remote mountain slope in northern India, a secretive cat becomes part of village life. Wildlife photographer Puskar Basu heads into the Himalayan mountains to find it.
