Animals-and-Pets
BBC Wildlife
How living things launch projectiles
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE, in nature at least, because speed often involves spending too much energy in a short amount of time.
3 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
SNAP-CHAT
Hair-raising adventures with big-cat lover Sebastian Kennerknecht
3 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
LOVE FOR A LIZARD
A tiny Caribbean island has made a remarkable ecological recovery, helping to save a rare lizard in the process
6 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
MARK CARWARDINE
“Why should wildlife lose to businesses underpinned by criminal activity?”
3 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
Wild boar threaten Chile's rare monkey puzzle forests
Invasive pigs binge on seeds of endangered 'living fossils
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
America's birds in peril
Steep declines of widespread birds is causing concern
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
Leafy seadragons
THE OFFICIAL MARINE EMBLEM OF the state of South Australia is a creature that you might associate with myth, but leafy seadragons really do exist.
3 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
A deadly race for krill
Huge whales depend on tiny crustaceans - but the fishing boats now want them, too
5 min |
May 2025
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POISON ARROW
It looks dashing, but dont be fooled - its hairs are dangerously toxic
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
The secret to evolutionary immortality, minus males
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
Living fossils
Amazing survivors from the dawn of time
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
GILLIAN BURKE
\"Nature was a vivid and abundant protagonist in Dad's stories\"
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
Sir David narrates new cinema film
A POWERFUL NEW FILM SHOWCASING our blue planet, Ocean With David Attenborough, is being released on 8th May in cinemas worldwide to coincide with the broadcaster's 99th birthday.
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
LIFE IS GOLDEN
On a tiny Pacific island, millions of jellies follow a strict schedule for their daily sun worship
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Wildlife
SNAP-CHAT
Derek Nielsen on charming chimps, wise elephants and ants in his pants
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Garden habitats for birds
I AM BELATEDLY MAKING MY WAY THROUGH the February issue and have just read James Fair’s piece about feeding birds.
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Pufferfish
PUFFERFISH ARE TOXIC WATER 'balloons' that know how to defend themselves against predators.
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
TO CATCH A CAIMAN
Studying caimans in the Amazon can help the species onservation - but you have to catch one first
7 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
IN PURSUIT OF PARADISE
An adventure in Papua New Guinea to seek some of the world's most incredible birds is the culmination of a 40-year dream
7 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
SMALL BEGINNINGS
Without the egg, animals as we know them - including us – could not have evolved and flourished. This is the rise of the egg
8 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
CIRCLE IN THE SAND
The seldom-seen subterranean insect that swims beneath our feet
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
SHAKE IT OFF
When it comes to impressing the females, peacocks know how to put on a show
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
ZOO QUEST
Many people believe zoos have an important role to play in conserving species. We investigate if this really justifies keeping animals in captivity
8 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Rise of the killer hornets
Asia's yellow-legged hornet has a toehold in Britain but we're keeping it at bay - for now
6 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Super-strong animals
Some of the world's mightiest creatures, from crabs to crocs
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Does anything live at the top of Mount Everest?
TERRESTRIAL HABITATS DON'T GET ANY higher than the summits of Himalayan peaks. And Himalayan peaks don't get any taller than Everest.
6 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
Electroreception: a shocking sense
ELECTRICITY IS THE RESULT OF interactions between objects with electric charge - and batteries aren't the only things that can be charged.
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
These ladies have a voice – and a taste for vandalism
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
GILLIAN BURKE
“Losing sight of this version of the human story hurts us all in the end”
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Wildlife
7 nature encounters for the month ahead
WITH NATURALIST AND AUTHOR BEN HOARE
3 min |