A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being captured ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

You might presume a sea otter mainly lives in fear of a lethal bolt from the blue in the form of an orca or white shark. Turns out, though, that some threats come on four legs. A recent paper in ...

Here’s a reliable recipe for high-stakes tension in the Alaskan bush: one hungry bear mixed together with one protective mother moose, and – the key ingredient to tie it all together – a brace of dewy ...

Leucism, piebaldism and albinism fall under a suite of skin pigmentation disorders called hypomelanosis. Although animals afflicted with these deficiencies share similarities, the conditions can be ...

In all the years Evans has worked with snakes, this marked the first time he'd come across a two-headed one. As someone with a lifelong passion for reptiles, he jumped at the opportunity to retrieve ...

Josh Miner’s ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, covers more than 100,000 acres and supports 1,000 cattle. It’s also home to about 1,000 pronghorn (often called American antelope) that eat the same ...

Mega-mammals like rhinos and buffaloes typically stay out of each other's way if their paths cross on an open grassland or at a waterhole, but for one especially belligerent white rhino in South ...

Yellow anacondas are amongst the world's largest snakes and will readily gobble up chubby capybaras and peccaries, but an adult caiman is an ambitious target even for the most sizeable snakes. In a ...

Lurking in the murky gloom of the twilight zone some 200 to 1000 metres below the ocean’s surface, is a blue-blooded, triple-hearted, donut-brained enigma of a predator. The inspiration behind ...

Taline Kazandjian, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Harry Greene, Cornell University; Nicholas Casewell, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and Wolfgang Wüster, Bangor University Cobras are ...

Imagine a pig with an elongated snout. Now add a pair of rabbit-like ears, slap on a kangaroo tail, and balance the whole lot on four stumpy legs and you've basically got an aardvark – a creature so ...