Imagine a bizarre-looking fly parasite takes up residence on your face – and never leaves. That's what life is like for these long-winged bats.

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 ...

WARNING: This footage is extremely graphic and may offend sensitive viewers. In March 2013 Kruger National Park section ranger Richard Sowry captured the ugly face of South Africa's poaching ...

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 ...

At any moment in time, one in every 20 male giraffes can be found amorously necking with another male. Or so says one study into giraffe homosexual behaviour. You probably wouldn't have learned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pearl is albino: her body doesn't produce melanin, the pigment that normally provides colour to skin and scales.This leaves all 2.3 metres (7.5 feet) of her body gleaming as white as her sharp ...

We know that bearded vultures deliberately stain their feathers by bathing in soils or water rich in red iron oxide deposits. But scientists don't agree on why the birds do this… Is it a germ ...

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

Today's armadillos are expert diggers, with powerful arms and large claws. The largest living species creates burrows less than half a metre (1.5 feet) across, but in the past, South America was ...

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 ...