Two of the world’s rarest big cats have arrived at Chester Zoo, UK, as part of a major bid to save Asiatic lions from extinction. Nilay and Shanti, both around two years old, were genetically paired ...

This episode explains how a huge filter feeding shark was only discovered in 1976, why there are still only around a few hundred confirmed sightings, and what makes it one of the rarest sharks on the ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

If there’s a common thread running through this year’s presentations, it’s the introspective tone of works that grapple with ...

Langtry legions. The real Judge Roy Bean, not the ones from film and screen, was a colorful character of the Old West without need for embellishment. He proclaimed he was “the law west of the Pecos” ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

A contender for Britain's largest insect could be the largest UK beetle, the stag beetle ( Lucanus cervus, measuring in at 35 ...

Bringing down an elk, buffalo or musk ox, let alone a human, does not present much of a challenge. Luckily, they tend to ...