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New study, carried out using tiger sharks in the Bahamas, extends total known global seagrass coverage by more than 40%

Judge says VicForests’ actions posed ‘a threat of serious and irreversible harm’ to greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders

Scientists have mapped what they believe is the world's biggest seagrass meadow in the Bahamas, capturing the underwater world from the view of tiger sharks.

Monfragüe, Spain: Some careful human intervention has created an intensely rich wildlife spot where vultures are the stars of the show

A whale researcher in British Columbia, Canada, last week experienced an extraordinary encounter with a rare and enormous sunfish that appeared outside his home.

Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice,…

The vast majority of animals on Earth are invertebrates (animals without backbones) – such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans.

The rusted barrels on the beach stand as a grim reminder of how penguins here once came close to being wiped out by humans for their oil. In the years since, they have returned — but now they could be facing a different man-made threat.

Cornwall was plagued by thousands and thousands of hoverflies earlier this year and now experts at the University of Exeter, Devon, say there could be more to come