It has a tongue that measures 1.5 times its body length – that’s the equivalent of a 3m tongue on a 2m-tall human.

The Amazon is famous for the mighty river, but high above the canopy, another vast flow of water is moving across South ...

The wolf-fish takes both its common name and Latin name from its prominent, canine-like teeth and incredibly powerful jaws ...

We were searching for shoebill storks in Bangweulu, Zambia, an area resembling a mini Okavango Delta, when a hippo burst from ...

The monitor lizard is not a single species but an entire genus and is one of nature’s most successful reptilian lineages ...

Discover the key differences between sharks and rays, two fascinating members of the cartilaginous fish family.

"When threatened it slips into a crevice and inflates its body like a rubber raft. Within seconds, it's twice its original ...

Sarah was staying on a tiny coral island near Panama when an unexpected visitor arrived at – and tried to get in – her cabin ...

The wartime shipwreck has become an artificial reef, home to groupers, wrasse, lionfish and critically endangered ...

While most animals that have no predators are what we call ‘apex predators’, meaning they are right at the top of the food ...

A bull elephant in musth on a field encounter is hard to mistake. Dark fluid from his temporal glands stains the sides of his ...

These deep-ocean fish usually spend their time around 1,000 metres below the surface, but sometimes they rise to the shallows ...