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It's 12km long, contains 37,000 homes and 74,000 individuals: The bustling, colourful metropolis you've never heard of…
Stretching across a dramatic 12-kilometre landscape, this vibrant and densely populated community operates with the efficiency of a major urban centre.
Record-breaking runs, swimming successes and theatrical tussles: These 13 beautiful photographs reveal the leopard’s astonishing athletic abilities
The enigmatic leopard is a master of stealth – but photographers are occasionally able to capture their striking beauty in the wild
Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist. Scientists just looked inside them – and discovered this
It turns out these flightless, supersized pigeons may have been a lot smarter than people think…
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It stretches a whopping 106 square metres and spans two countries – and it's home to over one hundred thousand scuttling residents
This epic animal home lies in a huge cave system underneath Albania and Greece
It grows to 2m and weighs 200kg… but its greatest weapon devastated an entire ecosystem
The sacred fish that has collapsed an ecosystem
"You can hear them talking to each other through your hull.” Sailor alone at sea for a week. Then this happens
One week into a 10,000-mile solo voyage across the Arctic Ocean, this sailor had a wildlife encounter to remember.
Researchers followed humpback whales to the seabed – and saw them hunting in a way never seen before
Scientists just saw – and filmed – humpbacks cooperatively hunting along the seafloor for the first time.
It may look like a dog, but don’t be fooled – Africa’s most efficient killer, which can travel up to a staggering 72km/h, is neither a wolf nor a dog
The largest canid in Africa is also classified as Endangered. In our African wild dog guide, learn more about the species, including diet, habitat and why they're endangered.
Is there a lion in your living room? How your pet cat has more in common with their wild cousins than you might think
How wild is your cat? John Bradshaw reveals why our feline companions have not lost touch with their wild side
Penguins are taking over a beach town in South Africa – and the locals love it
In Cape Town, the local penguins have found a place in many people’s hearts, helping to secure their future
Scuba divers in Bali thought this huge shape was a whale shark. But it wasn't
In an extremely rare encounter, a great white shark joined a group of scuba divers in Indonesia.
A hazelnut-flavoured contraceptive for grey squirrels? New science offers hope for UK’s dwindling reds
Scientists pin hopes on a new contraceptive and vaccine amid stark warnings that time is running out
This eye belongs to a deadly predator – can you guess which one in less than 14 seconds?
This is a close-up image of an animal eye – can you guess which creature it belongs to?
"While healthy adults were off the menu for most predators, the old, sick and young often faced grisly ends." 9 animals that could kill giant mammoths
They may be amongst the largest mammals to have ever walked the Earth, but mammoths weren’t exactly free from predation…
It had a massive 50cm leg span and was hailed as a giant, terrifying prehistoric spider – but scientists got it spectacularly wrong…
At a staggering, gigantic 33 metres long it's not only the biggest animal in the world today, it is the largest animal to have ever lived...
Our guide to the world's largest ever creature, the blue whale
Pumas are saving human lives in Washington State. Camera-trap footage reveals how…
Pumas change the way deer behave around roadways, leading to fewer collisions with cars, new study finds.
It's the size of Ireland and home to a whopping 400 million individuals – making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth
In 1901, an ecologist discovered an enormous animal 'town' in West Texas
Elusive and rare mammal released into the Patagonian mountains
An endangered deer is at risk of a livestock-spread disease. Now a treatment centre has released its first patient back into the wild
"It’s estimated that 35,000 creatures died on this beach…" 10 deadliest beaches on the planet including Skeleton Coast – world’s largest ‘ship graveyard'
There’s a cave in Kentucky that’s 426 miles long, 118 metres deep – and fish-eating spiders lurk in it
Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world – but where is it?
It spans 6000 km of the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy and houses billions of individuals – the animal that builds cities
How one super-sized ant colony could house half a billion ants
How did dinosaurs have sex with all those dangerous spikes, claws and plates? It wouldn't have been easy…
Wondering how dinosaurs mated? With difficulty, says JV Chamary.
They contain a quarter of all freshwater on Earth – but home to hundreds of ocean-like creatures
The sprawling African Great Lakes support a high number of endemic species
