An acrobatic gorilla, a grimacing bear and an Amazonian umbrellabird having a really bad hair day are among the shortlisted finalists in the 2025 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards – a chuckle-worthy ode to ...

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.

A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being captured ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mega-mammals like rhinos and buffaloes typically stay out of each other's way if their paths cross on an open grassland or at a waterhole, but for one especially belligerent white rhino in South ...

Black servals have become something of a holy grail for photographers and naturalists traveling to East Africa where the elusive wild cats are known to roam in higher numbers than elsewhere across the ...

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 ...

In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit something 30 feet down that wouldn’t budge. He called in additional digger drivers to help.

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 ...

In recent weeks, orca pods off the south coast of Western Australia have been spotted on two separate occasions hunting and killing blue whales – behaviour that's rarely been documented in the past.