What makes a snake a python, and how many different types of pythons are there? Learn more about the many python species here!

A leading conservation charity has criticised the Scottish Government’s plan to protect and restore Scotland’s ...

The new bird-like dinosaur's powerful hands and unusually long claws enabled it to take down larger prey in its habitat.

Bird-dinosaur species found with extremely ‘robust’ hands - Dinosaur with powerful hands likely even ate immature individuals ...

Surely the time has come to stop people just throwing their pets out to look after themselves. Cats are born hunters, that's what they do. The trouble is the owners who allow their pets to cruelly ...

THIS week I have been fascinated watching a huge buff-tailed bumblebee going to the summer jasmine and pink salvia flowers to ...

Get up close to lions, tigers, elephants, gorillas and more in the school holidays with a trip to Kent’s amazing animal parks ...

Out in Ashcroft, British Columbia, firefighters know how to put out grass fires that appear to have no obvious cause, and ...

The British Trust for Ornithology describes the bird as being distinctive, with a "huge red bell and shaggy black crest".

There are tens of thousands of parakeets in the UK, according to estimates, but experts claim that they will soon come under ...

We moved into a new home recently and on day two, I was standing with a cup of tea in the kitchen looking out to the garden and spotted a huge rat running across the grass.