Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how vulnerable they are.

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to rockpools at low tide, the Abdopus octopus can pull itself out and crawl ...

The colossal squid is the largest squid in terms of mass, weighing in at 495kg. The squid’s tentacles are only released when ...

As it passed mere millimetres from my body, the cetacean released a massive cloud of excrement that covered me head to fin, filled my snorkel and turned the water a dark brown. I surfaced and let out ...

Wolves are the largest members of the Canidae family and can be found across the globe, from North American to Asia. Grey wolves make up one of the largest wolf species, with 38 subspecies.

But after spotting what she thought was another whale, Hauser realised it was a tiger shark. And it was swimming straight towards her. This led Hauser to believe the humpback had in fact been trying ...

But their closest cousins, bonobos, are more like us, according to scientists. Experiments conducted at Lola ya Bonobo ...

Researchers believe they may have worked out why giant trevally swim upstream in the Mtentu Estuary and circle in vast ...

The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

If you want to go somewhere that's both off-the-beaten-track and remarkably beautiful, Mongolia is absolutely worth visiting ...

Whale placentas only float on the surface of the ocean briefly, so collecting them for scientific study is incredibly rare.

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...