Needless to say, the General Sherman tree is pretty heavy. The US National Park Service quotes a figure of around 1,270,000 kilograms (2,799,870 pounds) for the trunk alone – that’s roughly the ...

The coco-de-mer, a native tree of the Seychelles, has record-breaking seeds which can reach a whopping 40-50cm in diameter. But why do they grow so big?

Oil spill incidents always involve birds being rescued and cleaned – but why is oil so damaging, and in many cases fatal, to birds?

Research reveals the flight paths of ancient birds kickstarted the evolution of an exceptionally biodiverse mountain range in ...

Weighing a tonne and packed with hundreds of rooms – each home to a family — it can house a staggering 500 households. Is this the ultimate apartment block? It’s the heaviest, largest, most densely ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and South Korea wanted to see inside the 40-mile-wide Antarctic glacier to ...

Would you like to see one of the world’s rarest rabbits or a mystical mammal that looks like a goat with an identity crisis? How about two sun bears scrapping or a baby pangolin hitching a ride on ...

Their name comes from the half-bird, half-human Harpy from Greek mythology, which was feared for its habit of carrying people away – much like the way harpy eagles prey on tree-dwelling animals such ...

Researcher Océane Attlan just found a fish so rare it has only been recorded once since it was first discovered.

It's not just humans that build villages – so do other animals. And they can be so enormous they're visible from space ...

Cameraman Barrie Britton and I had been in the Kambui Hills, south-east Sierra Leone, for a few days when the trouble started ...