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 ...

Last week, we posted in detail about the rule violations that led to a shark-diving accident off Mexico's Guadalupe Island. Shortly afterwards, a second accident (featured in a YouTube video) went ...

Leucism, piebaldism and albinism fall under a suite of skin pigmentation disorders called hypomelanosis. Although animals afflicted with these deficiencies share similarities, the conditions can be ...

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 ...

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, ...

A strange phenomenon is unfolding in Fairbanks, Alaska, where several foot-long Arctic lampreys have reportedly "fallen from the sky". But while these odd-looking fish have inspired their own ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers in South America have teamed up to breed ‘super-cows’ that fend off attacks from jaguars and pumas. Fighting back isn’t what most people expect from highly ...

Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened ...

Orcas have made a name for themselves as master food flingers, but a video from Florida shows that their much smaller cousins also have a knack for flipping prey to new heights. The footage was ...

During an offshore trawl in southern Portugal earlier this year, researchers caught a bizarre deep-sea animal: a frilled shark. The one-and-a-half-metre male shark was pulled up near the Algarve ...