Plummeting down for more than 200 metres, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is one of the world’s deepest blue holes ...

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Often male birds are more colourful than their female counterparts, but the ecelctus parrot bucks the trend, as zoologist and ...

When deep-sea researchers sent their underwater robot more than one mile deep in waters off Hawaiʻi, they were surprised to ...

The ghostly trunks of a vast cypress forest, submerged for tens of thousands of years, rose out of the sediment, covered in ...

The idea behind this claim is that once humans achieved large enough brains and developed sophisticated cultures, cultural ...

This nest contained 1,920 chambers, 238 of which were occupied by fungus gardens. However, this measurement only took into ...

Stuart Blackman takes a look at the contenders for the slowest bird in the world and considers just how fast they actually ...

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Some of the planet's rarest – and strangest – animals and plants live on the top of South America's otherworldly Mount ...

Seven years ago, a poacher’s snare robbed a lioness of her leg. Against the odds, she lives on in Kafue National Park, Zambia ...

Researchers observed female howler monkeys eating more flowers after they had given birth.