Animal

AI-generated animal videos are sweet, until you realise the joy, like the animal, was never really there.

Some Greenland sharks alive today may have been contemporaries of Shakespeare. With a scarred heart that beats for centuries, this deep-sea shark defies age-related decline.

For half a century, Gyaros was off-limits to the world as a military prison and naval firing range. Then came an astonishing photograph.

Humans have more in common with these elite ocean predators than often thought. A little Miles Davis anyone?

No other mammal can survive colder body temperatures than the Arctic ground squirrel. Its chilly hibernation is inspiring new treatments for heart attacks, stroke, and brain injury.

The sad fate of a stranded humpback in Germany raises bigger questions about distressed whales – and how to help them.

Every year, millions of straw-coloured fruit bats descend on Zambia's little-known Kasanka National Park, creating one of Africa's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles.