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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, off the Californian coast, sea lions are feasting on thresher sharks. The clash was caught on camera in the waters off Laguna Beach, and the photos were posted to Facebook by the team at ...

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 ...

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, ...

For the past two years, palaeontologists in Tennessee have been working with fervour to dig up the skeleton of a particularly impressive mastodon. Huge even by elephant standards, the prehistoric ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A gigantic pearly white, once belonging to a prehistoric sperm whale, has been unearthed in Melbourne, Australia. The tooth is the largest ever to be found in the country, and as you can imagine, ...

Whether a harpy eagle plucking a capuchin from the treetops or a leopard ambushing a chimpanzee, predation on our primate cousins can be intense to witness – the fearful expressions of the prey hit a ...