The Philippines has some of the world's most distinctive mammal fauna and it proved that once again with the recent discovery ...

An acrobatic gorilla, a grimacing bear and an Amazonian umbrellabird having a really bad hair day are among the shortlisted ...

Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two nights. But those ...

The biggest freshwater predator in South America is the mighty black caiman, which vies with the American alligator as the largest member of the alligatorid branch of the crocodilian family tree.

Snakes occupy a particularly negative position in human consciousness. They are seen as mindless, anti-social, malevolent creatures. Something to be feared and difficult to relate to. A recent finding ...

Nile crocodiles are thick-skinned animals capable of withstanding some abuse, but for one croc in Zambia's Kafue National Park an onslaught by a pride of 13 lions proved its undoing. This remarkable ...

Yellow anacondas are amongst the world's largest snakes and will readily gobble up chubby capybaras and peccaries, but an adult caiman is an ambitious target even for the most sizeable snakes. In a ...

These big-eyed birds are found in tropical Central and South America where they spend their days resting beneath the rainforest canopy pretending to be trees. Potoos are nocturnal, so to avoid ...

This story originally appeared on bioGraphic, an online magazine about science and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The first time Bruno D’Amicis set out to photograph ...

Big cats – like lions, leopards and tigers – are among the few animals with enough brawn and moxie to take on a full-grown crocodilian. While these predators certainly target the occasional toothy ...

Where the hunting grounds of apex predators overlap, there are always winners and losers. Large carnivores use their brawn to force smaller rivals off meals, or worse: to wipe out the opposition ...

Where do all the species live? If we want to preserve wildlife as best we can, this is a crucial question. So, for the last decade, researchers have been working on mapping out the distributions of ...