Once thought extinct, researchers are trying to find out more about this tiny carnivore to aid its conservation.

Japan's snow monkeys soak in hot springs for thermoregulation and to relieve stress – a new study suggests there is another ...

In Ehime Prefecture, Japan, there's an island that's famous for its cat community. But how did they get there?

In an astonishing parallel to how human language evolves, communities in Mozambique use different ‘dialects’ to coordinate ...

In this rare behaviour, the dolphins push themselves vertically out of the water and ‘walk’ along using their tail.

Penguins have such strong parental urges to raise chicks that adults who have lost their young will attempt to kidnap another ...

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After swimming about 60m, I notice a big, murky cloud. It’s blood, though it looks greenish in the water, and I realise that ...

Perhaps they were curious as to what these strange, heavily-laden humans were doing in their territory – a vast, unspoiled ...

Researchers in Alaska have discovered that beluga whales have lots of different partners and this “mate switching” could be ...

For a long time nothing happens and I start to worry that I have come to the wrong place, or that I have left it too late in ...

Researchers say they are in a race against time to save the tree from a deadly fungal disease. In 2010, a bright yellow ...