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Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

12 October 2022

A little-known species of penguin only has the resources to raise one offspring, but an evolutionary quirk means they focus their investment on the second egg

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

25 October 2019

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world

David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty

4 April 2019

The veteran naturalist lays the blame for Earth’s increasingly fragile ecosystem on humans, yet the stunning visuals in Netflix’s Our Planet add little to the genre

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

23 January 2019

Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist

Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

9 November 2018

David Attenborough’s latest series uses a new kind of storytelling: by closing in on a few animals over two years, it creates real Game of Thrones style drama

The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps

26 September 2018

Priya Singh spent months in the wilds of north-east India tracking elusive clouded leopards and marbled cats, but caught more than she bargained for in her camera traps

Biodiversity may prove to be the defining issue of our age

25 July 2018

It’s an error to think we’ve got bigger problems than extinction. We must take species loss seriously, or it will come back to haunt us

Is life on Earth really at risk? The truth about the extinction crisis

25 July 2018

Earth’s biodiversity isn’t just beautiful, it ensures human survival. But to protect nature’s bounty we first need to know exactly how we’re harming it