From dolphins to elephants, some animals show remarkable awareness of death. Discover7 species that appear to turn the death of family ...

The aptly named Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried around 300 metres underground and contains giant gypsum crystals up to 11 metres long. Some are big enough to walk on and are so ...

Curious victims are sucked up by the current created when the predator opens its enormous mouth, which can accommodate prey ...

Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby ...

Why would vestigial arms need such biceps’? Some palaeontologists now find themselves drawn back to the theory that the limbs were involved in reproduction, perhaps as subtle signalling devices to ...

From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...

North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...

If every face tells a story, this one might have a sorry tale to relate about the time a golf ball landed in its pond. But there’s been no tragic sporting accident here. The enormous swollen forehead ...

The citizens of Tristan da Cunha – the most remote inhabited islands on Earth – have banned fishing and mining in their waters, creating the largest no- take zone in the Atlantic and the fourth ...

Discover the spider puts its mate in a trance. Mating may be one of the riskiest things a male spider ever does. Females are ...

Do cats have three eyelids? Cats do indeed possess a third eyelid, which can sometimes be glimpsed when a pet wakes or yawns. The nictitating membrane (or palpebra tertia, as it is formally known), ...

An image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 contest. Matty ...