23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (316+ words) Here's why predators have a seemingly low success rate at hunting and killing their prey Predators tend to be bigger, faster and more powerful than the prey they hunt, yet across much of the animal kingdom, most attacks fail. Even…...

23+ hour, 23+ min ago   (443+ words) We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they travelled far and wide… For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone - the last humans standing…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (259+ words) It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely BBC Wildlife Magazine It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (639+ words) This frog survives winter by spending it frozen solid - literally The only amphibian to live north of the Arctic Circle, the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) has an amazing ability to undergo freezing and thawing to survive cold winters. As you…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (505+ words) Meet the animal kingdom’s true giants – record-breakers in height on land and in the sea Defining “tallest” gets complicated when you leave dry land. While animals like giraffes and elephants are measured by how high they stand, marine species such…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (959+ words) Meet the tiny mammal that survived the dino-killing asteroid to became our earliest ancestor As the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ came to an abrupt end 66 million years ago, another evolutionary story began, the ‘Rise of the Primates’, and it starts…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (594+ words) Learn all about great apes in this expert guide from Nakedi Maputla from African Wildlife Foundation Bigger and brainer than all other primates, great apes are also distinguished by their sophisticated social structures and the way they exhibit culture. As…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (700+ words) From giant marine reptiles to intricate spiral shells, the Dorset coast remains a treasure trove for modern explorers. James Osmond / Getty Images There are few places in the world where 185 million years of history is so visible and easily accessible,…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (176+ words) Quite often, in a case of ‘polar confusion’, people envision polar bears rubbing shoulders with penguins in some unspecified icy waste. And with sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at record lows, some wits might suggest transplanting starving bears to…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (907+ words) These deep-sea fish are known for their iconic lure which tempts prey close to their ferocious mouths so they can trap them in a cage of terrifying teeth This creature goes by several different names: Johnson’s abyssal seadevil, humpback anglerfish…...