Animals

Wild, extinct, domesticated, endangered - the animal kingdom is filled with creatures of exotic shapes and sizes, making them a firm favourite for curious minds and fact finders of all ages. Here you can find a menagerie of animal facts and pictures of the wonderful beasts that walk the earth, the birds that soar through the sky and the sea creatures that swim through the vast oceans of our Earth.

Do any other animals have baby teeth and adult teeth? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Do any other animals have baby teeth and adult teeth?

Two-metre salamander is world's biggest amphibian © Ben Taple/ZSL/PA

Giant two-metre salamander thought to be world’s largest amphibian

Seagulls: are they getting more aggressive? © Getty Images

Reality Check Are seagulls getting more aggressive?

Newly discovered eel packs the biggest electrical punch of any known animal © Getty Images

Newly discovered eel packs the biggest electrical punch of any known animal

40 side-splitting photos from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 40 side-splitting photos from the animal kingdom

Want to confuse your opponents in football? Learn from the animal kingdom © Joe Giddens/PA

Want to confuse your opponents in football? Learn from the animal kingdom

What is the minimum difference a species must show in order to be classed as a new species? © Getty Images

What is the minimum difference a species must show in order to be classed as a new species?

What is a goblin shark? © Alamy

What is a goblin shark?

Pet cats: should they be kept indoors? © Getty Images

Reality Check Should pet cats be kept indoors?

Human-animal hybrids: Can we justify the experiments? © Salk Institute

Future Technology

Reality Check Human-animal hybrids: Can we justify the experiments?

Is there an animal with a penis on its head? © Magnolia Press

Quick Q&A: Is there an animal with a penis on its head?

Meet the mammoth hunters collecting rare tusks in Russia © Getty Images

Who are the hunters of rare mammoth tusks in Russia?

Flamboyant animals: seven of nature’s most colourful show offs (Purple harlequin toad © Getty Images)

Flamboyant animals 7 of nature’s most colourful show offs

Do animals get embarrassed? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Do animals get embarrassed?

What is an echidna? © Getty Images

What is an echidna?