A rare and dramatic predation event saw a superpod of more than 60 orcas take down a pygmy blue whale off the coast of ...

Our planet is a busy, crazy place. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small ...

A cat is probably not the sort of animal you'd expect to see cruising past your boat in the middle of a lake. So when Kevin Alexander and his son Blake spotted a pair of mountain lions swimming ...

You could be forgiven for assuming the astonishing video below shows a trio of cartoon kittens: big eyes, bigger ears, tiny paws: In fact, watching it again, we're almost back to being convinced ...

In a feline face-off between lion and leopard, the larger species has a clear advantage. Even the heftiest leopards come up about 20 kilograms shy of the smallest lions, and the latter rarely ...

With their elusive and mostly nocturnal habits, bobcats tend to stay out of our sight. But one California resident managed to capture a rare encounter on film this week – and the cat in ...

This story originally ran in bioGraphic, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. Story by April Reese When Salão and Sidra step out of ...

The fossilised remains of a new species of extinct dolphin that dwelled in the ancient oceans more than 5.8 million years ago are helping scientists solve the mystery of how and when the planet's ...