Earliest known octopus is not an octopus after all

Zoologists believe the animal decayed for weeks before it was fossilised 300-million-years ago and this led to the case of ...
The Observer

Iconic crested crane faces extinction

With its distinctive golden crown, red throat pouch and slender black legs, the crested crane is beloved in Uganda – ...

How to watch 'Secret Garden' online – stream David Attenborough anywhere

Five episodes of beautifully narrated natural history. Here's how to watch "Secret Garden" online for free, on TV and from anywhere in the world on Sun, April 5 ...

Are our gardens really biodiversity hotspots?

Those with garden ponds will probably have two or three amphibians - up to three of our native newt species (great crested, ...

What we learned about wildlife gardening… or how to make your garden a wildlife haven

Fences and walls between gardens are expensive and largely lifeless. How about a wildlife hedge? Hedges provide nesting ...
Discover Wildlife

"She emerges, not looking like a moth at all, but rather a peculiar pale thing with reduced legs and antennae that you could easily mistake for a maggot..."

It’s very much like the case of a caddisfly larva: pieces of plant material – usually lichen, bark fragments, stems or seeds – are sewn together to form a protective shroud in which the vulnerable ...