Two viral cage dives, two stuck sharks, a lot of confusion. Here’s a breakdown of what really happened.

It's all about trees in our South African home base this week as the country celebrates Arbor Week. To mark the occasion, we're dedicating this Top 10 to our favourite trees from across the ...

Once upon a time, the biggest, meanest, scariest predator in the ocean was an armoured monster named Dunkleosteus.

Native to the lush jungles of the Amazon, this crazy creature was caught on film by scientist and wildlife photographer Andreas Kay. Aptly known as the "snake mimic caterpillar", what you're ...

The catfish patrolling the cooling pond of the Chernobyl power plant are certainly impressive – but despite the hyped-up headlines, radiation is not the reason for their oversized stature.

Divers exploring waters off the coast of Honduras came across a nurse shark with incredible, speckled skin caused by a genetic condition.

Is that a caiman? Nope, it's a cat! And not just any cat – a black jaguar. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) CEO Carter Roberts recalls how a member of the WWF team spotted a dark shape moving ...

Two recently released clips from separate nature docuseries showcase the jaguar's caiman-killing capabilities.

In this remarkable footage filmed off the coast of Victoria, Canada yesterday, a killer whale sends a harbour seal hurtling 80 feet (20 metres) into the air!

A shark-diving trip off Mexico's Guadalupe Island almost ended in disaster recently when a 13-foot (3.9m) great white jammed its body inside the open top of the dive cage, and severed the divers ...

The animal kingdom is rife with imitation and trickery, but it's a rare bird indeed that can hide its true sex and profit from its deception. Such is the occupation of the male faeder, an uncommon ...

Mustelids don' hunt primates very often, but it does happen, as these photos documenting an encounter between yellow-throated martens and a rhesus macaque show.