On a misty morning in December, two photographers captured the images of 304 individual humpbacks – the highest number of large whales ever identified in a single day.
What happens when something that isn't human makes art? The answer lies with this image, and it could influence what ends up on your screen and in your headphones forever.
No beds, more birdsong: why outdoor sleep can make for better slumber which continues after you return home.
Top contenders for the nastiest sting range from bullet ants to warrior wasps and tiny jellyfish.
Inside the island colony being tapped to help save Australia's koalas from deadly chlamydia.
Twenty years on, relive the iconic scene from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth that changed our understanding of how polar bears adapt to survive.
From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.
Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation success.
A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.
