However, many of the species who live here are now at risk of disappearing forever due to habitat destruction, climate change ...

A small yet fearsome bird was caught on camera hunting and killing a giant rodent on a UK golf course - despite being 6,000km from home. Mark Begg captured a rare sighting of the Steppe Grey Shrike, ...

This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.

The days of the mink could be numbered in the south-east of England as part of efforts to save nature’s “good guys”, the ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

Both furry and feathered animals produce dander, which is made up of proteins from hair, skin flakes, urine, feces, and saliva. Since dander is shed from an animal's body, you can be exposed to it ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Your support makes all the difference. Scientists who question the validity of animal experiments are warning that medical progress is being held back because they are being “frozen out” by ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

The rapid growth in aquaculture means that billions of individual aquatic animals are now being farmed without basic information that could help ensure even minimal welfare standards. Our newly ...

That’s great in theory, but in reality, that means voles — hamster-like rodents that love nothing more than to gnaw the bark off the base of a young redwood. It’s called girdling ...