When Brazilian researcher Dr Maria 'Duda' Santos went scuba diving in Okinawa, Japan, she was surprised. Everywhere she looked, she saw species that were totally different to the marine life back home ...

It’s exciting to think that this apex predator, carving across the sky with knife-edge confidence, is in London. The city, for all its noise and bustle, has become one of the world’s busiest for ...

“Beaching here could be lethal,” explains David Attenborough in footage filmed for the BBC TV series The Hunt, which documented this behaviour. Working as a group, the dolphins drive fish towards the ...

Swimming with captive dolphins is definitely a no-no, but ‘swim with’ trips with wild animals are a more complex issue, says James Fair ...

Sand dollar exoskeletons are often found washed up after the animal has died. But this live individual has put on a hypnotic show that helps calm the mind.

A capybara is a large rodent (about the size of a pig) and and a member of the genus Hydrochoerus.

This means that the Guinness World Records (GWR) regards it as part of the Lambert Glacier-Amery ice shelf system. The glacier itself is over 270 miles (435 kilometres) long, but the longest flow-line ...