1 July 2021
An Australian aquatic beetle has been seen walking upside down on the underside of the water’s surface – a style of locomotion never been recorded before in an animal with legs
2 June 2021
From hippos escaping from drug lord Pablo Escobar’s private zoo to plant intelligence, a new podcast, Anthropomania, explores how humans interact with other life
28 April 2021
The deep sea has a reputation for being more mysterious than the moon, but that's changing. A new podcast delves into the latest news from the depths
24 February 2019
Turtles have been spotted performing underwater push-ups while hibernating – something that might help them grab enough oxygen to stay alive
28 November 2018
A real insider book explains why the saying busy as a bee has honeybees all wrong – and how studying them in the wild could be good news for them and us
1 August 2018
Despite centuries of commercial whaling, we know astonishingly little about the largest creature that ever lived, argues a new book by a leading cetologist
27 February 2018
In a particularly impressive trick of camouflage, some leaf beetles have evolved to look like the feeding damage they make on leaves, so they can hide in their own nibbles
3 July 2017
The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig-like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry
2 June 2017
The metre-long fish, which live on tropical reefs, usually mate in pairs. An uptick in their numbers around Palau may explain why they have begun mass mating
31 May 2017
The curious tentacle movements could be performed to fool unsuspecting prey or to ward off predators
