Snakes occupy a particularly negative position in human consciousness. They are seen as mindless, anti-social, malevolent creatures. Something to be feared and difficult to relate to. A recent finding ...

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 looking ...

Last week, we posted in detail about the rule violations that led to a shark-diving accident off Mexico's Guadalupe Island. Shortly afterwards, a second accident (featured in a YouTube video) went ...

It's all about trees in our South African home base this week as the country celebrates Arbor Week. To mark the occasion, we're dedicating this Top 10 to our favourite trees from across the African ...

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 like ...

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 biggest, ...

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. Yes, the ...

A tentacled and elusive inhabitant of the deep sea has made a rare (and ill-fated) appearance off South Africa's western coast. Footage of the "giant squid" has been doing the rounds this week – but ...

This story originally appeared on bioGraphic, an online magazine about science and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The first time Bruno D’Amicis set out to photograph ...

Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened ...

Chances are this purported "megalodon video" has popped up in your news feed this week – unsurprisingly, it racked up over 700,000 views in just a few short hours, and kept on going. The footage ...

The Arabian wolf is usually just a shadowy presence in the rugged landscape of Israel's Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. Recently, however, the area's unique, desert-adapted hunters have been getting some ...