We may be part of the same overarching group as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, but there are lots of things that set ...

Our relationship with the African wildcat is ancient, but our attitudes to its domesticated descendants, the pet cat,have ...

New research is uncovering the matriarchal secrets of zebras – including unprecedented behaviour, says Lucy Cooke ...

The fossilised dinosaur poop was discovered in the USA’s Hell Creek Formation, a known hotspot for prehistoric remains ...

All three species are related but perhaps not as closely as you’d think. Asian elephants are more closely related to woolly ...

Just why do seahorses look like horses? Helen Scales explains why their equine-looking head makes them stealthy ambush ...

Female dunnocks frequently take not one, but two ‘husbands’ and have been documented copulating over 250 times with both in order to start a family. Such profligacy, though rare among birds, is all in ...

Female chimps use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologist Lucy Cooke explains.

We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they ...

More cryoprotectants are produced in populations in colder locations. This adaptation means that the wood frog can survive at ...

The Gooty tarantula Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the metallic blue tarantula, is a strikingly beautiful species of arboreal tarantula. It is well known for its vibrant metallic blue ...

As I stumbled on, followed by Alan, Vinod began waving his arms violently up and down while screaming at the top of his voice ...