Sheep and goats may look similar, share pastures and even behave alike – but can they actually produce offspring together?

“I will never forget that moment. I called out to the others. The little shrew looked like something we had only seen once ...

But thanks to a camera-trapping project in the very southern tip of Thailand, scientists from Panthera, the global ...

Not so dim after all: alligators and crocodiles have been caught using sticks as bait to ambush birds – a rare display of ...

Barely longer than a matchstick, this tiny Tanzanian chameleon packs one of the fastest weapons in the animal kingdom ...

Bears notably reduce their mass over winter, using up their fat stores during hibernation. Yet a few mammals actively shrink their skeletons, skulls and brains by 20 per cent or more as cold ...

An early satellite study recorded caribou in Arctic Alaska travelling distances of 5,000km each year, but experts say ...

I decided I’d jack up the front end of the car and find something to put under the front wheels to get more traction and lift ...

While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...

In a horrific but easy-to-visualise scene, the ants grab its limbs and pull backwards, while the insect struggles in the ...

Does a cuckoo know it's a cuckoo? The answer is more difficult than you might think, explains Richard Pallardy ...

I spent several long days in a hide on the moors, hoping to photograph the elusive merlin hunting. On the final evening, as the light faded, I started packing up to leave. The moment I stepped outside ...