Swarms of ladybirds invade Romanian town
Nov 12, 2014Local residents have been forced to seal up their homes to keep out tens of thousands of the red insects.
Catatumbo Lightning enters the record books
Nov 11, 2014A region at the mouth of a river in Venezuela sees more lightning strikes than anywhere else on Earth.
Nest of 400,000 wasps found in camper van
Nov 10, 2014Measuring 10ft across, the huge nest was discovered in California by Robert McDougal.
Bats can use sonar jamming to steal food
Nov 9, 2014Mexican free-tailed bats have the remarkable ability to sabotage the food finding efforts of their peers.
4-acre spider web found in Baltimore building
Nov 7, 2014More than 107 million orb-weaver spiders are thought to be responsible for the spectacle.
Giant tortoises make 'miraculous' recovery
Oct 29, 2014Where once there were just 15 Espanola giant tortoises left there are now more than 1,000.
Do spiders possess 'super powers' ?
Oct 26, 2014Compared to humans, spiders are capable of some impressive feats of speed, strength and endurance.
Northern white rhinos on brink of extinction
Oct 19, 2014One of the last remaining northern white rhinos has died leaving only six left alive in the whole world.
Greenpeace submarine attacked by squids
Oct 14, 2014A two-man submersible was attacked by a pair of the invertebrates during an expedition in the Bering Sea.
Man dies after being attacked by 800,000 bees
Oct 9, 2014The massive swarm of bees had been unwittingly unleashed by two men working at a house in Arizona.
35,000 walruses gather on Alaskan beach
Oct 1, 2014Massive numbers of the seaborne mammals hauled themselves on to the shoreline for a bit of a rest.
Wild chimp culture caught on camera
Oct 1, 2014Researchers have captured evidence of chimpanzees learning a new type of tool use from one another.
Machu Picchu home to giant 'extinct' rat
Sep 28, 2014A species of rat thought to be extinct has been rediscovered near the Incan city's ruins in Peru.
'Finding Nemo' fish migrate vast distances
Sep 21, 2014Real-life clownfish have more in common with their big screen counterpart than was previously believed.
Man-eating Leopard is 'targeting drunks'
Sep 14, 2014A particularly deadly big cat is thought to have killed 12 people from remote Himalayan villages.
Eggs from deadly spider found in bananas
Sep 10, 2014A woman from Essex returned from the supermarket to find a clutch of strange eggs on a bunch of bananas.
Endangered blue whale numbers on the rise
Sep 6, 2014A conservation success story off the coast of California has seen blue whales thriving in recent years.
'Alien mushroom creatures' found in Australia
Sep 4, 2014A bizarre and unclassifiable type of mushroom-shaped sea creature has been identified by researchers.
Radioactive wild boar wander Europe's woods
Sep 3, 2014The effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are still being felt in Europe more than 28 years later.
Walking fish adapt when raised on land
VIDEO Aug 31, 2014Scientists compared the development of walking fish raised on land with that of those raised in water.
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