Tarantula hawk wasp

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

These enormous storks are just one of Costa Rica’s many avian attractions, writes Ruth Miller

“I know she’s there,” says Dennis. We’re standing on a grassy ridge above a tree-lined watercourse, squinting through binoculars at a tangle of sticks in the canopy of a tall Podocarpus. “Last time, I

Which species are the scariest, most venomous or biggest eight-legged freaks in the world?