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Learn all about the unmistakable pilot whale, from their diet and size to life in the pod and why, sadly, they're prone to ...

In a scientific first, researchers have recorded how quickly microplastics pass through the gut of zooplankton to better understand marine plastic pollution.

In Patagonia, killer whales snatch seal lion pups from the shore. But as Steve Backshall recalls, these apex predators don’t ...

Ostriches are also known as camel birds, because they are said to resemble the humped mammal from a distance, and are equally ...

I have fails all the time. Some are my own fault, such as the occasion I dropped a 600mm lens into a river; others are down ...