Oscar nominee Gints Zilbalodis on the allure of capybaras, casting his sound editor’s cat, and including human voice actors in his next movie.

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was all ...

Many animals have the need for speed – it is a matter of survival whether predator or prey. When it comes to speed, certain ...

One ancient Greek writer said that he wished to become a “high-flying eagle and soar beyond the barren waters over the swell ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

The world of cat wars has taken a new, deadly turn – with anti-feline neighbours going to great lengths to keep the animals ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Leave it to a gigantic hippo to scare off three lions as they swim for their lives to escape the territorial beast.

The paper was published today in Nature Communications.

We all need an occasional chance to focus on the untamed, and remind ourselves that we are a part of it. That might go double ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary prepares to welcome cheetahs, with detailed enclosures and local community concerns addressed ...