A rare and dramatic predation event saw a superpod of more than 60 orcas take down a pygmy blue whale off the coast of ...

Some weeks back, we were marvelling at the size spectrum of four different kinds of Russian Far East felines photographed by trail cameras on the same pathway. Now, we've got another virtual side ...

Long before enormous sharks like the great white, long before even the giant marine reptiles of the Age of Dinosaurs, in a world where animal life had only just begun to leave the seas, the ...

Editor's note: While they help to convey an important message, the images and video in this post may be disturbing to some readers. Back in August, we watched as marine biologist Dr Nathan ...

When entomologist and renowned photographer Piotr Naskrecki posted images of long-winged bats plagued by facehuggers, he caused a bit of a stir. At first glance, the strange creatures look ...

For conservation biologists, a day at the office might mean milking a molerat, tickling wombat genitals or lending a "helping hand" to masturbating maqaques – and with the popularity of Twitter ...

Native to the lush jungles of the Amazon, this crazy creature was caught on film by scientist and wildlife photographer Andreas Kay. Aptly known as the "snake mimic caterpillar", what you're ...

When breeding season rolls around, foxes tend to get a bit mouthy – and what comes out sounds eerily human. This is what the fox says: a high-pitched "YAAGGAGHH" rivalled only by the screams of ...

When a new video of catfish patrolling the cooling pond of the Chernobyl power plant surfaced online earlier this month, it didn't take long for the usual cries of "monster fish!" to follow.

Upside-down giants with record-breaking lifespans, baobabs are the continent's (and possibly the planet's) most iconic and outlandish trees. Add to that their towering bulk, fire-resistant bark ...

It can take a female whale shark up to 30 years to reach sexual maturity and fewer than 30 pups under a metre long have ever been documented – so every sighting of a youngster this small can ...

Aah, the hazards faced by wildlife photographers ... Hazard #168: Getting punched by an 'intoxicated' mountain gorilla. Photographer Christophe Courteau was taking snaps of mountain gorillas in ...