If you saw this circular raft floating down a river you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a discarded deep-dish ...

Archivists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the earliest known whale song recording, taken almost 80 ...

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 ...

Different species often form due to geographic barriers such as mountain ranges or rivers, which separate populations of the same species until they have become so different that they can no longer ...

The harpies were mythological spirits that took the dead to hell, but this harpy eagle was intent on taking James out.

Back in the 1970s British entertainer Rod Hull famously knocked a TV chat show host off his seat by attacking him with his ...

"I was filming in the Coral Sea when a huge shark rocketed up from the deep and came straight for me..." marine photographer ...