Meet the ‘Cheetah-cub’, a fast, four-legged robot complete with limbs that mimic the stealthy gait of real felines. Read More
From a newborn cub at a US zoo to a lucky sighting in Bhutan, two rare & threatened leopards have been making headlines ... and not of the gloomy, eco-grief variety. Read More
It's been a week of highs and lows: from the grim aftermath of a turtle conservationist's murder to some light-hearted dolphin surfing snaps, ghostly caterpillar shrouds and new protections for chimps, it's all in our roundup of nature news. Read More
With space only getting more and more crowded on the endangered species list, it’s not often you hear of animals that bounce back and get “delisted”. But what happens to those lucky few? Is there life after delisting? Writer and photographer Kathryn Cooper investigates … Read More
A clearly hungry cub burrows its way a little too vigorously into the posterior end of a buffalo carcass … and finds that getting out is not quite as easy as getting in... Read More
How do animals eat their food? You may not need to ask that question ever again after watching YouTuber Mister Epic Mann's hilarious 'instructional' video. Read More
If this hilarious parody forever ruins Awolnation's original 'Sail' for you ... well, blame it on the mucus trail, BA-BAY. Read More
Noses to the sky, these wolf residents at an Indiana sanctuary put on one howl of a show. Read More
It might look like an ordinary beetle to you or me, but expert insect hunter Peter Webb knows he's in the presence of an ant-exploiting, explosively armed superbug. Read More
Photographing birds is certainly no easy feat. Kirsten Horne gets to grips with flitting wings and flicking tails as she attempts to capture that perfect avian shot. Read More
Tarantulas have successfully crawled their way into popular culture as the ultimate "scary spider". In South Africa, this group of frightening arachnids are loosely referred to as baboon spiders. Expert Peter Webb takes a closer look at this feared family. Read More
Great news for the Wolkberg Zulu butterfly! The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa has found a second colony of this extremely rare species. Read More
She might love your head rubs, but Baby the alligator is still a bad pet. Just get a cat, we say! Read More
Heading out into the sprawling wilderness of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park as part of a landmark biodiversity survey, entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki discovers that the ‘Abominable Frogman’ who strikes fear into tiny amphibian hearts is actually a conservation superhero… Read More
They've been around for millions of years and are equipped for the kill. Don’t be fooled by the apparently silky exterior of the velvet worm, these decadent fellows are expert hunters. Read More
14000 people from 142 countries took part in a recent survey conducted by Arkive to uncover the world's favourite species. The results are in and you might be a little surprised by who took first place. Read More
From the plight of poor sustenance fishermen to the damage caused by commercial fleets, underwater cameraman Mark Thorpe tackles an issue that's drowning in controversy: shark finning. Read More
From leopard cams and dogs that swim with dolphins to naked skydives for rhinos, car-riding cheetahs & a bunch of amazing underwater encounters, we've done some pretty cool stuff with the GoPro! So we've raided our archive & made a little video dedicated to our GoPro gems. Read More
An Earth Touch dive crew recently travelled to southern Mozambique to film some of the region's diverse shark species. And when the cameras weren't rolling, they also found time to snap a few photographs of these amazing underwater predators. Read More
Penguins falling = funny. An entire blooper reel packed with penguin FAILS = perfect Friday viewing! Read More
Taxonomy doesn't have to be boring & stuffy ... there's plenty of interesting stuff in there if you know where to look. Meet Gorilla gorilla gorilla and other tautonymically named creatures. Read More
The popular hypothetical question gets its most comprehensive answer yet. So ... could we make the earth move? Read More
This mind-bending [interactive!] infographic has the answer. And if all the science-y bits are just too much to wrap your head around, it's still fun zooming out from grasshopper to nebula and back again! Read More
A crocodile has some of the strongest jaw muscles in the animal kingdom. Is it really possible to hold such powerful jaws closed with nothing but a rubber band? Read More
