5 new episodes since your last visit, below: the last 3.
8 new episodes since your last visit, below: the last 3.
Crocodile-lion altercations are a rare thing – both of these formidable predators prefer to stay on familiar turf: one reigns in the water; the other, on land. But every now and again, the scene is set for a deadly confrontation (and we've found a video of lions squaring off with crocs to prove it)...
Exploring the underwater world of the Nile crocodile is the ultimate thrill-seekers' adventure (watch the amazing wildlife videos in our Croc Quest series to see why). And since few of us are brave enough to enter crocodile territory, we've asked the crew to share all their insider info...
Our crews have been making videos of endangered species for years so they've seen the negative effects of global warming firsthand. But a few lucky and resilient animals are thriving in a warmer world!
When you're filming nature videos in wilds of Africa, you quickly learn a few secrets about the natural world. Take this buffalo. It might look like it’s on the verge of a very satisfying sneeze, but it's actually picking up secret chemical messages.
If you've watched the amazing videos in our Lion Empire series, you'll know just how playful lion cubs can be. So let’s say it’s a boring, hot Monday in the Okavango. Most of the lion pride are doing what they do best: sleeping. What might a restless cub do to pass the time? Maybe a little game of “cat and pangolin“?
Have you watched our Lion Empire video series? Want to know more about Africa's 'royal' cat family? Check out our Top 10 facts...
Lions are not made for climbing trees. Fact. When it comes to arboreal living, it's the leopard that's the undisputed king of cats. So what exactly is going on in our 3D video of lions in the trees?
Another environmental summit kicks off. The world keeps on not caring. How do we muster some optimism?
Those two-million-plus views on YouTube are no surprise. Simple, funny and just plain awesome.
They're usually whirring past at a gazillion wing beats per second so it's pretty cool to watch one having a peaceful little snooze.
It's a history of the planet for the YouTube generation: it takes only 120 seconds so you'll just finish watching before your attention span resets.
It's a crustacean relocation of epic proportions. Watch as massive numbers of hermit crabs migrate across a beach in the Virgin Islands.
Those bloated bellies signify one thing: a seriously big meal was had here. Hippo-sized, in fact.
When Japanese scientists announced recently that looking at images of cute animals helps to improve our concentration, no one in the Earth Touch office was surprised. We've been harnessing the secret power of cute for years.
Our Best of YouTube section would not be complete without Battle at Kruger - 2007's epic face-off between a herd of buffalo, lions and a crocodile or two in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
Do you need shock therapy? Environmental non-profits of all shapes and sizes love shockvertising. But if persuasive power is the yardstick by which we measure an ad's success, how do shockvertisements stack up? Are fear messages effective?
This animated infographic should make you reconsider your sushi lunch ... our appetite for fish is devastating marine ecosystems worldwide.
They may be slow and lumbersome, but tortoises like a bit of action as much as the birds, the bees and the rest of animal creation.
A mechanical breakdown in the middle of the African bush is not always a bad thing. For these tourists in Kenya, engine trouble leads to a pretty amazing lion sighting.
Do not adjust your monitor. You really are looking at a football-playing kudu.
They much prefer to snack on antelope or zebra at a picnic, but it looks like lions will happily compromise if they happen to stumble on some cheese and wine.
So you've watched our Camp Cheetah series and now you want your very own cute and cuddly spotted cat at home? Stop right there. No really. We mean it.
Talk about getting out of your comfort zone just to find some food. These European catfish in southwestern France have learned to hunt pigeons ON LAND!
When the head of a decapitated croc washed up on a South African beach, the headlines blamed the ocean's top predator. Great story ... but not much evidence to back it up.
11 February marks Inventors' Day in the US (and, rather aptly, it's also the birthday of Thomas Edison, one of history's most prolific inventors). To mark the occasion, we're looking back on some the coolest inventions that caught our eye in 2012.
Sounds from the depths of Mordor? Nope, just a clan of shrieking hyenas in a show of force, chasing lions off a kill.
As an Earth Touch crew leaves sunny South Africa behind to do some serious chilling out in Antarctica, we’ve been thinking about some of the extreme adaptations necessary for survival when temperatures plummet below zero.
Long, long ago, there lived keyboard cat. Now meet optical illusion cat, an adorable orange feline capable of perceiving Akiyoshi Kitaoka's rotating snakes illusion. Or is it?
This week on our news roundup: alligator prosthetics, mosquito invasions, four-winged birds and adorable seals that love watersports!
It might be a little dramatic to describe the vehicle-chasing giraffe in this video as 'reminiscent of T. rex', but these usually placid-looking animals can certainly be menacing when they want to be.
Locust swarms of biblical proportions, tracking whales by song, primate discoveries and environmental warnings – all in this week's roundup of nature news.
The cicadas are coming. And they have their own hashtag. In fact, all that stands between now and #swarmageddon is a little heat.
Face-sized tarantulas, protective elephants on a rampage, toxic rhino horns, cleaning up our oceans and why nature is good for your brain - all in this week's roundup of nature news.
Take a three-tonne African elephant and a scrawny New York subway rat and you have yourself two creatures that bear little resemblance to each other. One thing that connects them is some small and furry mammalian ancestor that lived on planet earth, say, 65 million years ago. And now here’s another: birth control.
Some cobra-related news has Earth Touch staffer Kirsten Horne checking under the bed in fear ... turns out most Mozambique spitting cobra bites happen while the unsuspecting victim is sleeping!
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.
Bugs in nanosuits, bears in surgery, cracking the coelacanth code and tracking sharks with robots ... that and more in this week's roundup of nature news.
Like most dates in the eco-calendar, 22 April is likely to attract its share of the usual dismissive criticism. But if you can bear to shelve that cynical reticence for just a few minutes, here's some good evidence to back Earth Day's world-changing credentials.
Conservation charity Durrell has teamed up with the makers of Wallace and Gromit and the likes of Stephen Fry to produce an animated short that aims to save other species from the dodo's sad fate.
Whether you call it Workers’ Day or Labour Day, May 1 is associated with labour and workers’ rights. And with hard work in the spotlight, we’ve been looking at a few particularly industrious animals that deserve a day's rest of their own.
This week on the roundup: fungal communication, saving turtles with LEDs, everything you need to know about entomophagy and why serving lion meat tacos is a stupid thing to do.
If you've never heard of a wildlife auction, think 'Storage Wars' crossed with an Attenborough special. Well, maybe not exactly ... but substitute the rows of storage containers with bomas (special wildlife enclosures) and the secondhand treasure with rhino and giraffe, and you’re pretty close.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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...
