Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta ...

If you've seen it in a horror movie, an insect probably did it first. Some squirt acid from their butts, others liquify their victims, and then there are those that make zombies out of their prey ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. To me, as a behavioural ecologist, who is interested ...

Across the vast Northern Hemisphere range of the moose, this biggest member of the deer family is just past the rigours of the rut, aka the breeding season. That autumnal stretch of the calendar ...