Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

It glows under UV light and delivers venom that science cannot neutralise. Meet the platypus, Australia’s strangest mammal, whose bite causes extreme pain and defies treatment.

Two pandas at a Tokyo zoo will be returned to China in January, the Tokyo government said on Monday, potentially leaving ...

A researcher who extracted the animal from the eel's body believes it's the first recorded instance of one found attached to ...

Ocean depths hide sharks with extraordinary features. These creatures, from the Goblin shark's snout to the Thresher shark's ...

Read on as we reveal 30 fascinating facts about creatures great and small... Young pygmy goats (pictured above) are social ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

In an exploration of the influence of monogamy on eusocial societies, Dr Mark Dyble found that the white-handed gibbon had ...

From matriarchs who guide entire herds to queens that dominate their hives, the animal kingdom is full of powerful females ...