To celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, we’ve compiled a list of some of his various awards and accolades.

Cenote Angelita is one of the Yucatán Peninsula’s most mesmerising underwater landscapes, known for its otherworldly 'lake ...

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If you have ever smelt a dead animal you will know it has a very distinctive death smell - like nothing else on Earth. Here's ...

Extreme depths, low visibility, acid water and unbreathable surface air: welcome to the world’s deepest known freshwater cave ...

David Attenborough’s nature documentaries have captured some first-time animal behaviours over the years on film – here are ...

As David Attenborough turns 100, there are plenty of programmes to watch on the BBC that celebrate his remarkable life and ...

In a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers from the University of Arizona ...

The world’s largest animal migration and ocean gyres play vital roles in the global carbon cycle. Scientists went into the ...

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...

Each year, thousands of fish fall from the sky in Utah. But this isn’t a scene from a film – it’s part of efforts to restock ...

A new study describing the discovery of rare platypus fossils has shed some light on the evolutionary history of one of Earth ...