“My fingers were shaking”: diver films great white shark in Mediterranean first
The remarkable encounter took place in May several kilometres off the coast between Tunisia and Sicily. Diver Derk…
To see her standing there, focused entirely on finding her cub – who was in serious danger – was one of the most affecting things I’ve ever seen.
On a stretch of river near Bardia National Park lies a 4km2 island that has become one of the…
The eastern brown snake, responsible for the majority of Australia’s snakebite deaths, is so well adapted to suburban Brisbane and Sydney backyards that catchers remove thousands each summer from garages, swimming pool filters, and kitchen pantries chasing the introduced black rats that thrive in human kitchens.
The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) is among the snakes most likely to kill an Australian, and the…
Tourists find grisly sight under gnarled tree on remote Aussie roadside: ‘Completely shocked’
Tourists heading into an outback Queensland town were “shocked” to spot a grisly warning sign under a gnarled…
Four days of extreme rain in Indonesia killed 7% of world’s rarest great apes, study finds | Extreme weather
Extreme rainfall and landslides fuelled by the climate crisis killed 7% of the remaining population of the world’s…
Giant Whale Graveyard Found in The Ocean Is Like a Drowned City of The Dead : ScienceAlert
In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast ‘city of the dead’ has slowly…
Deepest and most extensive whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean | Whales
The oldest, deepest and most extensive whale graveyard yet discovered has been found in the south-eastern Indian Ocean,…
The sheep-killer myth that helped drive the Tasmanian tiger to extinction and why scientists think farmers got it wrong |
For decades, the Tasmanian tiger was portrayed as Australia’s most feared livestock predator. Farmers blamed it for dead…
Two Female Tigers Take Turns Babysitting Their Cubs While the Other Grabs a Bite to Eat
Filmmakers on the BBC Earth series Tiger Island watched in absolute astonishment as two female tigers in Nepal…
Springwatch’s Michaela makes admission just minutes into BBC programme | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV
Springwatch presenter Michaela Strachan opened the wildlife programme this evening, admitting she’s been “feeling nervous” as she joined…
Over 10,000 albatrosses reported on Japan island after “extinction”
TOKYO – The population of endangered short-tailed albatrosses on a remote Japanese island has exceeded 10,000 for the…
The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.
When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of a five-metre Greenland shark in his…