Hop aboard as Daisy Dobrijevic sets sail to discover the world’s most unusual beasts.

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Beneath the vast Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, there’s a weird world unlike any other

Dave Lewis recalls a trip to explore the National Museum of Wales’ collection of rare and unusual fish, and asks why these sorts of catches seem to be becoming more common

The pine marten is back, roaming the UK’s woodlands. And its return to some spots after almost a century might be helping out the red squirrel…

Of all the strange and wonderful animals that live in the deep sea, perhaps the most tantalising are the ones that are occasionally glimpsed by deep-submerged cameras, then swim off into the darkness