Researchers used 37 years of data to study predation on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. They discovered the animals are eating ...

Daisy is a journalist and writer with 20 years of experience working on titles including the Telegraph, Time Out London, ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning 9.2 million square kilometres (3.6 million square miles) – an ...

These bridges featured in BBC series The Green Planet in 2022. Speaking to BBC Wildlife, producer Elisabeth Oakham said, "Concrete and wooden bridges don't last very long, so the local Khasi people ...

American bison, by contrast, have a long, shaggy coat covering their front quarters, front legs and heads, light or dark ...

Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from ...

A new study has found that chimpanzees are able to organise behaviours in complex action sequences and suggests the fundamental abilities underlying human language ...

To avoid predators and the relentless sun, the sandfish opts for subterranean travel, plunging head-first into the ground and navigating the safer and cooler subsurface. But, unlike a mole or prairie ...

I n the Indian Ocean there’s an old fisher’s trick. The wily hunter catches a remora. They tie a line to its tail and throw ...

One morning, I was leading a game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, when we came across a small herd of Thomson's gazelles grazing and nearby a troop of 50-60 olive baboons foraging, some on ...

If Coco Chanel gave the common blackbird a makeover, the result would be the oropendola. With a minimalist colour palette and ...

Spiders don't talk to each other like we do – instead they communicate using sight, touch and smell, says Sara Goodacre. One of the common topics of spider 'conversation' is around the hunt for a mate ...