This is the first new penguin species described in more than 100 years – the Northern rockhopper penguin ( Eudyptes moseleyi) ...

It’s easy to see how these shimmering creatures earned their name — their sparkling exteriors closely resemble the sequinned ...

There's one more animal that kills great white sharks and this one is the most terrifying of all: us. Humans kill 100 million ...

BBC footage shows male hippos fighting for dominance, sometimes for hours, in a brutal struggle for mating rights ...

In footage captured for BBC’s Kingdom, a pride of lions and their cubs are forced to leave their nursery ground after ...

It looks like a gentle giant, but get too close and this 350kg mammal can charge – as one wildlife expert discovered the hard ...

A big driver in the recent resurgence of rabies is political instability in parts of Eastern Europe. Most of the rabies cases detected in the EU have been located, on average, within 50 kilometres of ...

In a predominantly green world, being green seems like it would have its perks, especially if you’re trying to avoid the a ...

Small enough to sit comfortably in a human hand, the pygmy marmoset is the world’s smallest monkey, weighing around 100g.

For a wildlife lover it’s tricky dealing with 'pests' such as wasps, ants and slugs. Do you live and let live … or become a ...

High-speed imaging has helped scientists better understand how baby oysters feed, but what they’ve found could be a problem for future oyster populations.

Much like the people who built Hadrian’s Wall, sycamores originally came from overseas. It’s thought that they were first ...