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 ...

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

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?

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

From ants to birds, these 7 species don’t just hunt – they steal, kidnap, and turn others into unwilling servants.