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Why do some animal mothers abandon their babies? We asked an expert
There are benefits to animal mothers abandoning young – including a longer lifespan
Prehistoric insects were absolutely massive. Here's why they needed to be so darn big
Richard Jones explains just why prehistoric insects were so large...
"Their stonking size led to rumours that they can snap shut in an instant, trapping poor divers who snuck their arm inside to steal a pearl…"
These colossal clams were rumoured to kill humans but the opposite is true – climate change, pollution and overharvesting are pushing them to the brink
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It may look like a wolf, but don't be fooled… DNA reveals Darwin's mysterious Falkland Islands predator was something far stranger
The Falkland Islands wolf didn’t seem to fear humans, Darwin recorded, but that’s because it was a domesticated South American fox species
It’s 4,500 years old, 180km across and cloned itself from a single seedling – meet the largest, most humongous plant on the planet
discover the seagrass meadow that had been hiding a secret for thousands of years.
The day weevils hired lawyers and saw the Church in court
Meet the 16th century lawyer who defended weevils in court – centuries before ‘conservation’ existed
Not all dinosaurs laid the same type of egg – here’s how we know
Modern reptiles lay soft-shelled eggs. Birds lay hard-shelled eggs. What about dinosaurs?
This is why lemurs adopt yoga-like poses. And no, it’s not to become more flexible…
Just how do furry, woolly and feathered animals get vitamin D?
"It could sprint at 40mph and had a huge skull with a deadly-looking, hooked beak and swallowed its prey whole…" 10 deadliest prehistoric birds ever
These early birds certainly caught their worms, and more. Meet some of the deadliest birds that ever lived…
"It could have weighed as much as 10 tonnes, more than double the weight of an African elephant and possibly as much as 14.3 tonnes!"
Discover key facts about the different species of mammoth – where they lived, what they ate, and why they went extinct.
"The thought of them lurking under the water is enough to give you the shivers – After drowning its victim it rapidly rolls it to remove its limbs…
A deadly predator, learn about saltwater crocodiles in our expert guide, including where they live in the wild, diet and whether crocodiles really sleep with one eye open.
“A mutating army of deadly germs” – 8 deadliest bacterial diseases to avoid like the plague
A bacterial infection is nothing to worry about – that’s what antibiotics are for, right? Well, not exactly, as an increasing number of them are now being outsmarted by a mutating army of potentially deadly germs.
"With a single bite, prey can be incapacitated or sliced in half, by fearsome, razor-sharp teeth the same size as a great white's…"
Meet the fearsomely fanged, freshwater monster with a bite like a crocodile
More than 6,600km long, it flows through 11 countries, across deserts, jungles and wetlands... And hides some of Earth's deadliest animals
Would you convict a pig of murder?The sow that was seized, brought before the local court, convicted for murder and sentenced to death
It looks like a friendly garden bird, sings like one too – but it's one of the most toxic creatures alive
Just how poisonous is the hooded pitohui?
It might be called a fox, look like a fox and act like a fox - but don't be fooled, this is no fox
Do ants use toilets?
How one species of ant even have toilet attendants...
“Some believe that Gibraltar Falls was 1,000 times higher than Niagara Falls.” This could be the largest flood on Earth of all time
The Zanclean Flood, which is theorised to have occurred 5.33 million years ago, refilled the Mediterranean Sea
"The fangs are huge, too large for it to close its mouth. Instead, they act as a cage, trapping would-be prey as though on Death Row"
The mega-mouthed fish that can turn on the lights and catch prey in a cage
What's the deadliest animal in India for humans? Clue - it's responsible for a staggering 20,000 deaths a year and it's not the mosquito…
India is packed with venomous and dangerous animals, but which one is the deadliest? Stuart Blackman looks at the contenders for India's deadliest animal
This weird fish has a hedge-trimmer for a face. Scientists have just discovered something shocking about it
Scientists assessed how vulnerable sharks and rays around the world are to climate threats and the largetooth sawfish came out top
“He’s a 1,000kg wild marine predator that is very capable of hurting someone if startled.” Who is Neil the seal?
Neil the seal hauls out onto the island of Tasmania twice a year – around 930 miles from where he should be
There's something strange that's twice the size of Vatican City – and like nothing else on Earth – living in a Scottish loch
Serpulid worms are found all around the world but reefs are rare. The largest of them all is in the shallow waters of a Scottish Loch
