Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...

Paler than other sea turtles, the flatback turtle is a light olive-green that has a remarkably round shell (which is unusually thin and brittle) with distinctly upturned edges, and a rounded, stubby ...

Often also called the feather-footed flower bee, it has distinctive brush-like tufts of long hair on the lower part of its legs. The bee likes to hover in front of flowers, sometimes with its tongue ...

It uses its climbing abilities to eat the eggs and young of other animals. And in this footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a lace monitor finds a nest full of opossum babies.

Nemotodes can certainly adapt to extreme environments, such as the deep sea, Antarctica and mines that stretch kilometres ...

Meet the eye-catching comma – one of the UK's first butterfly species to appear in spring. The first butterfly of the year always lifts the spirits – and it’s often a comma. This butterfly seems to ...

In footage captured for the latest series of Big Cats 24/7, we watch a tense encounter between a cheetah mum and a leopard ...

The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.

They may be the size of a Shetland pony and weigh up to 275kg (600lb) but pigmy hippos are very hard to spot in the wild. In ...

We’re not the only animals that farm; ants do it too, cultivating vast quantities of fungus to feed their growing ...

When stingrays lose their barb, the animals can survive but are left without their main form of self-defence from predators, ...

The USA’s Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world and is home to a vast array of wildlife ...