Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, ...

The megamouth shark – a sluggish but arresting-looking filter-feeder that basically puts the head of a majorly oversized frog on the body of a mackerel shark – only emerged on the scientific radar in ...

If you've seen it in a horror movie, a bug probably did it first. To celebrate Halloween, here's a look at some of nature's ...

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 ...