The largest oyster reef restoration in the world is over three square miles and brings many benefits to the ecosystem ...

The pupae are carried back to the red ant nest, and when they hatch, the kidnappers coat them in secretions from specialised ...

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

The waters surrounding this windswept island teem with marine life, particularly seals and sealions – in fact, Point Bennett, ...

Many scuba divers will know the devastation of seeing coral reefs becoming bleached and dying. That was the case for Leon ...

Archivists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the earliest known whale song recording, taken almost 80 ...

Some tigers do become serial man-eaters. But the evidence suggests they are driven by necessity rather than preference.

The critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were spotted during a recent population census in Vietnam’s Khau Ca ...

Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...

It's not just humans that build villages – so do other animals. And they can be so enormous they're visible from space ...