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 ...

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 ...

Sharks might get a bad rap, but it's hippos who are some of the most dangerous animals on Earth. It's pretty clear to see who's the boss in this rarely seen interaction! Filmed in South Africa's ...

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 ...

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 ...

In late October this year, seven-year-old Jack Tolley became the second person in recorded medical history to be bitten by a cookiecutter shark in Australia. The rarely seen shark left a 73-millimetre ...

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 ...

Science communicator Preeti Desai happened upon the decaying fish during a recent outing at a beach in Texas City. Viewing the serpentine silhouette from afar, she initially mistook the creature for a ...

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, ...

When it comes to naming ancient species, some palaeontologists have a little more fun than others. Every species – alive or extinct – receives a two-part scientific name, made up of its genus and ...

Go exploring along certain rock faces in South America, and you might come across strange, smooth-walled tunnels cutting through the earth. There are hundreds of them in certain regions of Brazil and ...

Orcas are well equipped to handle just about anything they meet in the water, but one pod off the coast of British Columbia recently encountered an oddball: an antlered buck. The strange scene was ...