Flora and fauna

On Thursday, an image featuring strange patterns on a beach in Dorset, England went viral on the content-sharing site Reddit. The design is referred ...

These are the tragic photos which prove the bonds of motherhood know no bounds.A gorilla called Shira walks frantically through her cage at ...

THE nine-year-old beagle, from Tokyo, Japan, booked her place in the record books for the most balls caught by a dog. THIS dog has ...

The reptile suffered from leucism, a genetic condition that that produces less than typical amounts of skin pigmentation, creating a patchwork of ...

Thousands of fish have inexplicably washed up on a beach then disappeared, leaving environmental experts baffled. Locals who photographed the ...

A breaching whale is an iconic image of the sea, but few have ever seen one in real life, up close, and fewer still have managed to catch one on ...

We rarely see polar bears outside of a snowy Arctic environment, but these bears are no strangers to having fun in the summer! In a rare series of ...

A hungry, thieving bear met his match last week when he came up against the unyielding might of the all-powerful Cat Door. Doug Harder of ...

Look in the bottom right corner of this painting. If you've never seen a watermelon like that before, you're not alone. This 17th-century painting ...

Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken has not only found the answer, he's managed to do it with 40 different fruits. And he's sharing the ...

A 200lb black bear leapt clean off a wooden patio at a rural Alaskan retreat after being spooked by the boss of the home - a slender house cat only ...

The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first ...

hese alien-looking creatures were discovered by America’s Ocean Exploration Team on the seafloor near Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. ...

Swimming as a kid, I tried to view both the surface and underwater world at the same time. Matty Smith has turned this into an art form. ...

Footage has emerged of a peculiar looking green worm-like creature with a long pink tongue.The bizarre creature was filmed by Wei Cheng Jian in the ...

Back in the summer of 2006, scientists studying the vast and in some places mile-thick Greenland ice sheet observed something that can only be ...

A "walking" fish that can move across dry land is threatening to make its way to Australia from Papua New Guinea and could pose a threat to local ...

A giraffe in Tanzania doesn't seem too bent out of shape for having its neck ... uh, bent out of shape. Wildlife photographer Mark ...

It resembles a monster from a b-list horror film but deep in the forests of Borneo this giant leech really exists and is a deadly ...

In 1859, a man named Thomas Austin, a landowner in Winchelsea, Victoria imported 24 wild rabbits from England and released them into the wild for ...

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of ...

It’s one of the most basic biology facts we’re taught in school growing up: Birds and mammals are warm-blooded, while reptiles, ...

A new paroxysm is occurring at the volcano. Increasing near-continuous strombolian eruptions occur from the summit vent of the New SE crater and a ...

Sørvágsvatn (Leitisvatn) is the biggest lake of the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the island of Vágar between the ...

IT starts with a warble, a little like a creature calling out in the jungle. Then it turns to a rumble, like a train approaching from afar, or ...

A trip to Yellowstone National Park took a terrifying turn for tourists who were chased by a family of black bears. A black bear and her three ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today announced that two independent laboratory tests have confirmed a malignant, or cancerous, ...

"Tigernado" took the web by storm. After exotic animals were reported missing from an Oklahoma safari Wednesday night following a tornado — ...

While touring Antarctica for a few weeks with his 73-year-old father, Stockholm-based filmmaker Kalle Ljung brought along a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter ...

They are both formidable predators, sitting at the top of their respective food chains. But a series of X-ray images has revealed what happens ...