What’s special about an anole’s dewlap?

Found on the inside of the front legs, the name dew claw is thought to refer to a tendency to brush dew away from the grass. An old superstition holds that a dog who still has dew claws will be immune

An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole

Clouds of noxious gas, stink bombs and purple smokescreens may sound like schoolboy pranks, but the animal world is just as capable of executing arresting chemical warfare, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

From her Yorkshire smallholding, Sally Coulthard marvels at the superpowers of crepuscular creatures that emerge in the magical half-light of dawn and dusk

The Land of the Leopard is a national park near Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, about 50 kilometres northeast of North Korea, and bordering China. It is the primary habitat of both the Amur tig