If we're being honest, the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus insonus) is not much to look at. It's a fairly conventional bunny: long ears, strong hind legs, short tail, a little chubby.

As the 65-foot Nanny rolls 20 degrees to port and then to starboard, the half dozen or so hunting dogs aboard look alarmed. It’s hard to blame them. The wooden boat is making a rough winter ...

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 ...

A compelling image of a barnacle-covered football captured by Ryan Stalker off the English coastline took the top prize in this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. The winning image was ...

A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being ...

From glowing scorpions to twisted morays, the winning images and finalists in the Nature Photography Contest 2023 offer a glimpse into the delicate beauty of the natural world. A new addition to ...

Moles have acute hearing and are able to detect vibration from movement above ground, which makes tracking them down particularly tricky. So how do you unearth a golden mole that hasn't been ...

Nile crocodiles are thick-skinned animals capable of withstanding some abuse, but for one croc in Zambia's Kafue National Park an onslaught by a pride of 13 lions proved its undoing. This ...

It's kind of a big deal if you're a keen botanist. Titan arums, also known as corpse flowers (not to be confused with parasitic plants in the Rafflesia genus that have also earned this grisly ...

A shot of a humpback whale's fluke breaching the surface of the water with the New York City skyline jutting out of the horizon in the distance, a colony of red ants forming a "living" bridge to ...

When media mogul Ted Turner bought Vermejo in 1996 it was damaged goods. In the 155 years since the first Mexican land grant to settlers, Vermejo had been worked hard. Farming, overgrazing ...

From the heartbreaking to the awe-inspiring, the winning images in the Natural History Museum's annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition rarely disappoint. This year's contest was ...