Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...

Often also called the feather-footed flower bee, it has distinctive brush-like tufts of long hair on the lower part of its legs. The bee likes to hover in front of flowers, sometimes with its tongue ...

Paler than other sea turtles, the flatback turtle is a light olive-green that has a remarkably round shell (which is unusually thin and brittle) with distinctly upturned edges, and a rounded, stubby ...

Nemotodes can certainly adapt to extreme environments, such as the deep sea, Antarctica and mines that stretch kilometres ...

In footage captured for the latest series of Big Cats 24/7, we watch a tense encounter between a cheetah mum and a leopard ...

The Mississippi River flows for around 2,350 miles through the heart of the US. It drains an area of 1.2 million square miles – that's roughly 40% of the country – and at certain points is 11 miles ...

Meet the eye-catching comma – one of the UK's first butterfly species to appear in spring. The first butterfly of the year always lifts the spirits – and it’s often a comma. This butterfly seems to ...

The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.

The Caspian Sea spans an area of 149,200 square miles (386,400 square kilometres) – making it larger than the area of Japan ...

We’re not the only animals that farm; ants do it too, cultivating vast quantities of fungus to feed their growing ...

The head-burying myth may have stemmed from the way ostriches have to bend down to dig their nests. When ostriches are faced with an actual problem (a predator), they can flatten themselves against ...

They appear straight out of prehistory – and they are; the reptiles have survived mostly unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs. They are a soft shelled turtle with thick, black, rubbery skin where ...