Madagascar holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest island in the world, after it split off from Africa during the ...

In the dark of night a bulky animal shape lumbers up a rocky track, climbing the steep side of Mount Elgon in Kenya, intent ...

There’s something fishy going on New York City’s East River, and researchers have used DNA collected from the water to work ...

When danger threatens, the gut wall ruptures and the organ is ejected through their rear ends. On contact with seawater, it ...

Celebrated wildlife film-maker Hamza Yassin says we should be doing more to encourage children's love of wildlife ...

Every April, horseshoe crabs descend on Delaware Bay to spawn, forming the largest horseshoe crab aggregation on the planet.

Britta Jaschinski's photo of a glowing sea turtle wins top prize in this year's Environmental Photography Award.

Looking down on it from above, the world’s deepest sinkhole, Xiaozhai Tiankeng, looks as though someone used an enormous apple corer to gauge a chunk out of the earth’s core. Steep sides give way to a ...

The fourth of five ocean zones – the abyssopelagic zone or the abyss – stretches from 4,000 to 6,000 metres deep ...

A vast, tangled delta of mangrove forests straddling India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is a hauntingly beautiful yet ...

Take a closer look and you might spot a few clues that help you tell the difference between a dugong and a manatee. The first ...