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 religion? © Daniel Bright

Do any other animals have religion?

If you fed cows strawberries, would they make strawberry flavour milk? © Getty Images

What are cows communicating when they moo?

Jellyfish: Ancient creatures with a lot to offer © Getty Images

Jellyfish Ancient creatures with a lot to offer

16 incredible pictures from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2020 © Arshdeep Singh

16 incredible pictures from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2020

Why does my dog go round in circles before she poos? © Alamy

Why does my dog go round in circles before she poos?

Hundreds of animal species potentially at risk from COVID-19 © Getty Images

Hundreds of animal species potentially at risk from COVID-19

South African vets scan huge gorilla © Getty Images

South African vets take CT scan of 210kg gorilla

Mantis shrimp ‘clubs’ could inspire a new generation of super tough materials © Getty Images

Mantis shrimp ‘clubs’ inspire a new generation of super tough materials

Mummified animals 3D-scanned 2,000 years after death © Richard Johnston/Swansea University

Mummified animals 3D-scanned 2,000 years after death

What’s the largest flying animal?

What’s the largest flying animal?

How did tortoises reach the Galápagos Islands? © Getty Images

How did tortoises reach the Galápagos Islands?

Why do cats and snakes have slits for pupils? © iStock

Why do animal pupils come in different shapes?

Disease-bearing animals 'thrive in human habitats' © Getty Images

Disease-bearing animals ‘thrive in human habitats’

Could we bring back an extinct species using DNA, Jurassic Park style? © Daniel Bright

Everyday science

Could we bring back an extinct species using DNA, Jurassic Park style?

Life finds a way: when nature reclaims abandoned places © © Clement Bucco-Lechat/Wiki Commons

Life finds a way When nature reclaims abandoned places