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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember that video from last year of an orca tossing a sea lion 20 feet into the air? Well that whale’s got nothing on the pinniped-flipping abilities of this orca (skip to 00:29 for the action): "We ...

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 ...

Editor's note: While they help to convey an important message, the images and video in this post may be disturbing to some readers. Back in August, we watched as marine biologist Dr Nathan Robinson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost everything about the goblin shark reflects the harshness of the dark underworld it calls home. With nutrients so hard to come by in the deep sea, energy savings have meant cutbacks in the ...

When they're not being mounted by renegade weasels, Eurasian green woodpeckers tend to go relatively unnoticed. The birds have an extremely large range, so they're a pretty common sight in the wild.

The animal kingdom is rife with imitation and trickery, but it's a rare bird indeed that can hide its true sex and profit from its deception. Such is the occupation of the male faeder, an uncommon ...