Beneath Taylor Glacier, several kilometres away from where Blood Falls emerges, there is a subglacial pool. It formed millions of years ago below hundreds of metres of ice. The water there has very ...
The longest cave system in the world is named, rather fittingly, Mammoth Cave. Found underneath Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave ...
In Yellowstone National Park in the USA, ravens are strongly associated with wolf kills. For many years, it had been assumed they followed the region’s top predators in order to be the first ...
What better way, then, to attract flies than to smell like a corpse? Rafflesia is a parasitic plant that spends its entire life-cycle hidden inside tropical lianas and only sporadically advertising ...
It was a misty morning, soon to be scorching, like every day in Niger, when we arrived at the riverbank. I was 17, living in the capital, Niamey, while my mother worked as a diplomat at the US embassy ...
It has hairy legs and flies with its tongue poking out – and it could be in a garden near you; Does the world's deadliest bee deserve its killer reputation? There’s a bee with ...
In the city of Mekelle, hyenas and other urban scavengers are helping save the waste disposal sector money while also curbing carbon emissions, new study finds.
To mark 20 years of the BBC TV series Planet Earth, we look at some of the filming firsts it captured – including a ‘zombie’ fungus ...
The karst caves of north-western Puerto Rico in the Caribbean are home to a surprisingly large array of animals. Some of these creatures are small. Cockroaches and other bugs scuttle from nook to ...
At around 61km 2 San Marino, in Europe, is one of the world’s smallest countries. Entirely landlocked, it is surrounded by Italy. It does, however, have a surprising variety of habitats given its ...
Look to the floor on your next forest walk and you may spot these vivid jewels among the leaf litter, says Ben Hoare.
The microscopy expert put the big-clawed animal through his micro-CT scanner, creating an incredibly detailed image of its body.
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