New footage from ‘Pole to Pole with Will Smith’ shows the actor getting up close to a giant anaconda. Smith could be seen ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

Give alien your banana #dandadan #anime #cosplay Ben Sasse reveals pancreatic cancer diagnosis: "Death sentence" Ashlee Buzzard arrested in murder of daughter Melodee: 'Cold-blooded' Reese Witherspoon ...

Conservationists have described 2025 as year of the octopus after enormous numbers were seen in the south west. This year has been named ‘year of the octopus’ in the south west (Kirsty Andrews/PA) It ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The golden poison dart frog appeared small, colorful, and harmless at first glance. In reality, its skin carried enough toxin to kill dozens of adults with minimal contact. Few predators ever survived ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world A rescued baby orangutan in Indonesia. Photograph: Indonesia Ministry of Forestry/YIARI/International ...

A series of photography trips has left one of the world’s most visually spectacular frogs in peril. The rare galaxy frog (Melanobatrachus indicus), named because it looks like the cosmos on legs, is ...

Bronwyn has always loved words and animals, and she has the journalism and zoology degrees to prove it. After more than 20 years as a writer and editor, the former music journalist went back to ...

From the dawn of the cosmos, humanity has wrestled with the nature and purpose of sentient life. French-Moroccan director and screenwriter, Sofia Alaoui, confronts these profound questions head-on in ...