On New Year’s Day in 2018 I was almost bulldozed by a humpback whale. I was shooting photos and looked up to see what ...

Beavers are ecosystem engineers. Their activities sculpt entire environments, creating opportunities for other species to ...

Birds speak different languages – but when danger strikes, some learn to listen, decoding unfamiliar calls through the voices ...

From bomb craters to spoil heaps, whaling stations to war zones, abandoned human landscapes are becoming unexpected ...

Few sights in the animal kingdom are quite as arresting as an American alligator staring head-on towards you. All sharp teeth ...

Jon A Juarez is a wildlife and conservation photographer who lives in Berlin. His work has been featured in BBC Wildlife magazine and is a category award winner in Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Cuttlefish can change colour in 200 milliseconds, as fast as a human can blink. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils, which are thought to help control the intensity of light entering the eye. Cuttlefish ...

In the natural world, Antarctica is where to look for the coldest place on Earth. In 1983, thermometers at the Soviet Vostok ...

This lopsided dentition, combined with the unusual ability to move the sides of their jaws independently, enables them to ...

In a clip from David Attenborough 's 1998 BBC TV series Life of Birds, a lyrebird imitates a chainsaw, kookaburra and car ...

Suddenly, a sapling tree shot up in the air and there was a distant bellow. Simultaneously, our jungle guide sprang into ...

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...