Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, ...

The megamouth shark – a sluggish but arresting-looking filter-feeder that basically puts the head of a majorly oversized frog on the body of a mackerel shark – only emerged on the scientific radar in ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. To me, as a behavioural ecologist, who is interested ...

Across the vast Northern Hemisphere range of the moose, this biggest member of the deer family is just past the rigours of the rut, aka the breeding season. That autumnal stretch of the calendar ...

If you've seen it in a horror movie, an insect probably did it first. Some squirt acid from their butts, others liquify their victims, and then there are those that make zombies out of their prey ...

Ragged-tooth sharks might look ferocious with their rows of razor sharp teeth but these creatures are surprisingly docile and are happy to share the water with curious divers. In this week's ...

Spooky wreck diving in Thailand EPISODE SYNOPSIS Anemone Reef is teeming with all of the usual marine life you'd expect to find in the waters of Thailand ... but there's something else submerged ...

Lion mating ritual up close EPISODE SYNOPSIS It's not a behaviour often captured on film, but the Earth Touch crew recently got the chance to film African lions mating in the wild! When it comes ...

It’s no holiday for the gibbons of Thailand. Habitat loss, poaching for traditional medicine and the cruel capture of baby gibbons for both the pet and tourism trade have left all but one ...

The empire-state building becomes a beacon for endangered species, a lost whale calf in a marina, another rodeo-riding animal and a sloth with an unusual surrogate mom. That’s all in this week ...

Homosexual Giraffes Do What Comes Naturally EPISODE SYNOPSIS At any moment in time, one in every 20 male giraffes can be found amorously necking with another male. Or so says one study into ...