Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Great white sharks inspire more terror in people than almost any other creature on Earth! Everyone knows the famous line ...

Our earth is inhabited by a multitude of fantastic animals, and some of them... well, they definitely stand out from the pack ...

A new Oxford-led study reveals Africa’s animal energy flow has fallen to two-thirds of historic levels, with big consequences for habitats.