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"The Mass Mortality Event was devastating. In a few short weeks, something strange wiped out more than 60% of the species’ global population"
The event took place over a few short weeks and detrimental to the Saiga population
Meet Britain’s very own tarantula – the purse-web spider, complete with huge fangs
Does Britain have tarantulas? Yes says Nick Baker, or at least a spider that belongs to the same family. Meet the purse-web spider
The bizarre '4-eyed' mammal that appears to survive arid, desert conditions without access to water
Our guide to the world’s most endangered antelope - the hirola, including why they are sometimes known as four eyed antelopes, and why their populations have declined.
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“Our guide told us there was a bear cave 300 metres away. We didn’t take him seriously. It was a miracle we survived”
Boris Belchev on birds, batteries and battling bears with pop music
“It functions like an ecological time capsule, preserving landscapes that no longer exist...” 10 ancient locations that have barely changed for millions of years
Our planet’s surface is constantly changing, but some areas have remained relatively unchanged for millions, even billions, of years…
"Once they've caught their prey it may be shaken violently to ‘deglove’ and they then tear the carcass into pieces small enough to swallow"
The leopard seals sit close to the top of the artic food chain. Here's why
The day it snowed spiders in Brazil
A quiet Brazil town looked like a scene from a Tim Burton movie after it started snowing spiders
9 terrifying animals straight from your nightmares: Bloodsuckers, deadly predators and nature’s most horrifying beasts that strike fear and revulsion
The natural world is full of weird and wonderful creatures, but some animals are the stuff of nightmares...
It can swallow prey whole, reproduce at any time and is named after a Disney character – meet the elusive deep-sea animal
This animal's population is also unknown, as specimens are rarely found intact by scientists
It spends all day in bed and looks like it's wearing striped pyjamas – but its cuteness conceals a toxic side
Yes this is a real animal - be it a rather sleepy and weird one...
“It screams, chatters and whistles”. It might look like a dog but it definitely doesn't sound like a dog with its freaky, spine-tingling vocals…
Here's why the dhole is called the 'whistling dog', and everything else you need to know about the species
Can leopards and cheetahs interbreed? Could cheetapards be a thing?
Tigers and lions have been known to interbreed, so why haven't cheetahs and leopards?
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From deathstalker scorpions, active volcanoes and Komodo dragons, this is what the world's deadliest deserts have in store
"Buried on ocean’s floor lies a flat, pancake-like lethal predator that's bigger than a king-sized bed and perfectly designed for deadly, ambush attacks"
Our guide to the strange looking angelshark, once common in British waters.
"The heavens opened – and it started raining fish, hundreds of them…" And the possible reason was even more bizarre
Here are the possibilities investigators considered to explain the crazy experience
"First, it crawled around on the roof. Then it started pushing and clawing at the windows. I pounded and yelled, but couldn’t scare it away."
Photographer Isaac Szabo talks hellbenders, chub nests and bears on the roof
The strange reason animals eat their own snot – and it may be more than just a disgusting habit
Primates picking their noses? Here's everything you need to answer that question
The strange island where trees bleed, deadly cucumber trees grow and nature has evolved in ways found nowhere else on Earth
Found at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, Socotra island has the weirdest species
“I endured one and a half hours submerged in the freezing water, with only my head visible.”
Adventures above the Arctic Circle with bird lover Knut-Sverre Horn
“There were hundreds crawling across the trail.” Huge, hairy animals surround stunned hiker in Texas desert
Tamara headed to a Texan national park with the hope of spotting a black bear – but stumbled across something more ominous
It can spot prey over a mile away and swoop in at a staggering 100 miles an hour to make their kill - leaving their prey little chance of escape
We take a look at one of the world's most majestic birds, the bald eagle
Remote camera catches bobcat attacking biggest rattlesnake species on Earth
Camera-trap images show the wild cat biting and clawing a large eastern diamondback rattlesnake in Florida.
It's longer than a shipping container, has a metre-wide mouth and a dorsal fin the length of a baseball bat: 9 biggest, most gigantic sharks on the planet
These are some of the largest sharks in the sea (and the biggest isn’t the great white!)
"After mating he ensures no other suitors follow suit by chewing off his own genitals and uses them to plug the female"
Forget a post-coitus cuddle, the female Darwin's bark spider will engage in sexual canabilism once the male's done the deed.
