The European brown bear’s love of electricity and telegraph poles is helping scientists gain new insights into its behaviour.

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.

Chameleon have a hidden advantage as hunters, a ballistic tongue that works well in the cold.

Sperm whales caught in the act of surface feeding

A major research station in Kenya is destroyed by flash floods.

Deep sea fish changes our understanding of ocean food webs.

For the first time, acoustical surveys are used to listen in on Africa’s rarely seen forest elephants.

A common swift has taken the title as the fasted bird recorded in level flight, say scientists.

Desert ants in Tunisia are the first animals known to navigate with stereo smell, creating an “odour map”.

A warthog is groomed by a hornbill, a scene never before reported.