North America’s largest swallow, the purple martin, was hit hard by winter storms in 2021. With erratic weather events ...

The Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland, is a refuge for some truly extraordinary animals.

It uses its climbing abilities to eat the eggs and young of other animals. And in this footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a lace monitor finds a nest full of opossum babies.

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 ...

The USA’s Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world and is home to a vast array of wildlife ...

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 ...

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

From an animal that’s not actually an animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in ...

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 ...

Carcross Desert, in Canada, is often referred to as the world’s smallest desert – although it technically isn’t one ...

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