We’re going behind the scenes this week to film groundbreaking beak surgery that will give an African penguin a second chance at life in the wild. After being hit by a car and left with a ...

The catfish patrolling the cooling pond of the Chernobyl power plant are certainly impressive – but despite the hyped-up headlines, radiation is not the reason for their oversized stature.

YOU MADE IT TO THE END. Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild ...

What's more, these bites don't seem to be randomly placed. In some fossils, there are several gouges across the bone ending in a big fracture – the result of an attacker biting numerous times ...

Remember those spiracles we talked about? It's those same structures that give this caterpillar the power of the "squee". Back in 2010, scientists at Canada's Carlton University housed walnut ...

Lately, vagabond Indo-Pacific crocs have increasingly turned up in the Maldives, most often during the rains of the Northeast Monsoon. In 2015, there were more than a dozen crocodile sightings in ...

It's all about trees in our South African home base this week as the country celebrates Arbor Week. To mark the occasion, we're dedicating this Top 10 to our favourite trees from across the ...

Shark swallows some steel. Steel perforates shark's stomach. Shark pushes steel out through its skin.

Demure and delicate? Think again. Butterfly expert Andre Coetzer gives us the lowdown on the butterfly's dirty little secret: mud-puddling.

"It is not a salmon shark," explains shark biologist Dr Alison Kock. "T hey are found only in the Northern Hemisphere. So that leaves white shark pup, or a juvenile mako or porbeagle.". Though the ...

Last month, Indiana-resident Kathy Spiegel was snapping photos of bullfrogs at a local pond in her hometown when a flash of turquoise caught her eye. On closer inspection, she discovered an all ...

A cookiecutter shark bite of similar size and depth to the one on Tolley's leg can be seen here, in a Fraser's dolphin calf. Image: Josh Silberg/Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute ...