Female of the species

The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith

Daisy Dobrijevic discovers the queen bees and alpha females of the animal kingdom.

Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors

The ethics of industrial insect farming

If you thought raising kids was tricky, spare a thought for the mother eaten by her own spiderlings…

YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT IF you get stung by a bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), a species named after the fact that the pain from its venom feels as if it has been inflicted by a gunshot. Some insect