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It’s a slimy, prehistoric grisly parasite with the mouth of an alien. And two fearless photographers are obsessed with finding it
33+ min ago (406+ words) The'sea lamprey'is a most peculiar fish. It has a slimy, eel-like body and an alien-like mouth, and is a parasite, latching onto other creatures to feed. It first appeared 300 million years ago, making it more ancient than the dinosaurs. It…...
21 stunning wildlife photos from Grand Teton National Park
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (112+ words) From majestic moose and soaring eagles to curious owls and bounding bears, here are 21 spectacular wildlife images captured in the US national park. Wildlife abounds among the high mountain peaks, scattered forests and flat meadows of Grand Teton National Park…...
"There wasn't a curve in sight." Straight bananas found growing on remote Caribbean island
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (388+ words) Is it the end of the bendy banana? Naturally straight bananas have been discovered growing on a small island 47km off the coast of Costa Rica. Pl'tano Recto, a land slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight, has been off-limits to…...
It's the lowest place on Earth, the size of Seoul, 10 times saltier than the ocean – AND it's dying. One day soon it might not be here...
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (480+ words) A vast, otherworldly lake where salt-laden waters buoy swimmers and barren shores stretch into desert, the Dead Sea has long captivated travellers and scientists alike Manfredo Pinzauti / Getty Images The lowest place on Earth at 427m below sea level "a sea…...
It's an unforgiving, harsh, remote arid landscape the size of Texas that receives just a few millimetres of rain a year - yet remarkably some wild animals live here...
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (427+ words) Harsh, remote and hauntingly beautiful, the Empty Quarter stretches across the Arabian Peninsula in a vast, shifting expanse of dunes and silence An almost incomprehensible 650,000km2that's roughly the size of Texas of sand dunes and little else. That's the Rub…...
‘I braved the vast forests of Finland to track an elusive predator. I’ve never seen anything so awesome.’
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1826+ words) Deep in the forests of Finland, the lynx leads a secretive life, so elusive that it rarely give up its secrets From 9,000m up, the view of a seemingly infinite stretch of boreal forest gave rise to the realisation that our…...
Staggering drone images show three colossal 'whales' rising from a forest in Thailand
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (199+ words) Few rock formations on the planet are quite as surreal as Thailand's Hin Sam Wan " or Three Whale Rock. The world is filled with incredible rock formations: Australia's enormous red monolith,Uluru; Northern Ireland's dreamlike Giant's Causeway; the United States…...
Filmmakers released a robotic orangutan into the Borneo rainforest. What it captured was astonishing
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (223+ words) A robotic orangutan was able to film incredible, human-like behaviour for the BBC TV series Spy in the Wild Although chimpanzees are renowned for their tool use, there are many animals in the natural world that use sticks, rocks and…...
'As we approached the overhang, we spotted it – a bizarre creature with a fleshy beard lurking in the shadows"
1+ week, 1+ day ago (647+ words) Wobbegong sharks are ambush predators, hiding in reefs waiting for their prey to swim close enough. But they're very hard to find, says Melissa Hobson, who was lucky enough to spot one on a recent dive in Indonesia. Although I'd…...
Snoozing polar bears among 5 stunning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award
1+ week, 1+ day ago (95+ words) Snoozing polar bears among 5 stunning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award'BBC Wildlife Magazine Highly commended images from this year's competition include two bear cubs playing in the middle of a road and a gruesome shot of…...