An insect bites off another insect’s leg. Is this predatory behaviour, aggression, defence, competition or something else? In the case of carpenter ants, it’s for the good of the amputee and ...

An airborne stoat, a lion 'lover's quarrel', and a jaguar sinking its teeth into a caiman are just some of the recently released Highly Commended images from this year's Wildlife Photographer of ...

Ponder the most dangerous bear in the world, and you might naturally think of the mighty polar bear – king of the Arctic and most carnivorous of ursids – or the big and ornery North American ...

African sharptooth catfish are hardy survivors, but even these resilient fish are vulnerable during the dry season. In the winter months, many of the waterholes and pans in South Africa's Greater ...

Rest assured that, at any given point in time, somewhere a shark is eating something. That (admittedly pretty inane) statement has held true, in fact, for hundreds of millions of years. These days ...