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Nobody knows where whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are mating

Councillors are to be asked to consider an initiative which would lead to reduced lawnmower use in Argyll and Bute, and more wild flowers being…

Prof Shane Ahyong discovered ‘brutish’ mantis shrimp so unusual it needed its own new genus

A new global survey finds that endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide

It happens every spring along a section of road north of Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg: Volunteers, some in yellow vests, patrol near the Sestroretsk Bog natural reserve, and become crossing guards for thousands of toads and frogs

We're always more likely to save the fuzzy animals first. Faced with a global crisis, that's not a bad thing

From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason

Bodmin, Cornwall: These red-listed mice are still sleeping off the last of winter. As we check for activity, we enter a world of velveteen moss rugs and squatting shrews

A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible

The Schmidt Ocean Institute captured rare footage of the juvenile near the South Sandwich Islands.

A young Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the heaviest invertebrate on earth, was filmed in the Atlantic Ocean