The Most Dangerous Animal in All of Africa Isn’t a Lion or Rhino — Most People Never Guess It
There’s no doubt that lions are one of the most ferocious predators on the African savanna, but they…
Giant otters, river sentinels, now listed as threatened migratory species
The giant otter was added to the list of animals needing protection under the UN Convention on…
Rescuers Scrape Heavy Barnacles From Sick Sea Turtle — Then Watch Her Finally Swim Free
This past summer, off the coast of Florida, a boater spotted a loggerhead sea turtle who was completely…
“I’ve never met a good-tempered walrus, they’re always grumpy!” Wildlife filmmaker Doug Allan on filming in the Arctic and working with Attenborough
This interview was originally published in the October 2019 issue of BBC Wildlife. In a career spanning four…
Creature thought to be world’s oldest octopus isn’t an octopus after all
A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world’s oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else,…
War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat
The Asiatic cheetah once roamed from the Arabian Peninsula to India, but today is found only in…
Cuckoo among signs of the advancing summer
Though we haven’t heard its welcome call at the time of writing, the cuckoo is probably here by…
The ‘oldest octopus’ in the world isn’t an octopus after all, scientists find
The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually belong to…
Video showing true size of Tibetan fox leaves viewers stunned: ‘I was not prepared’
The Tibetan fox’s unbothered stare has sparked all manner of viral memes, from the heroic to the judgmental,…
Wildlife trade ups the risk of diseases spilling over to … us : NPR
This pangolin was confiscated from a smuggling ring that sold endangered animals to restaurants in China. Animals caught…
Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups | Primatology
On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo…
Experts flag trafficking after monkey endemic to Borneo is found in Thailand
The recent discovery of an injured proboscis monkey near a railway track in Thailand points to…