How animals live in extremes

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

They knew the weather would be bad. But the three-person film crew, in Antarctica to document emperor penguins for a BBC documentary, decided to press ahead. “We wanted to film in these conditions,” s

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Far from the shore, out in the vast expanses of the open seas lives a group of unusual animals, collectively known as ‘neuston’. Their home is the giant, two-dimensional skin of the sea, which forms a

OCEAN PROTECTOR