Category: Nature

A trophy hunting firm is offering a buy one, get one free package, as reported by The Mirror. The offer – which sees a lioness thrown into the deal if a customer pays to shoot a lion – comes from Mkulu African Hunting Safaris in South Africa. Under a section…

Stop everything you are doing because we just discovered the cutest cat species in the world! Meet caracals, or to be specific, baby caracals! The beautiful creatures have been religiously important to the ancient Egyptians. These cats appear in ancient Egyptians’ paintings, bronze figurines, while their sculptures were thought to…

Wow, now that’s a big bird! That’s the way most people react when they see a harpy eagle for the first time, whether in person or in a picture. The massive bird is, well, absolutely massive. Fierce. Proud. Majestic. Larger than life. With a steely glint in its eyes that…

The other day, Margaret Neville was strolling through the garden on her farm in South Africa when something remarkable caught her eye. There, on a branch in her lavender bush, was an insect unlike any she’d seen before: “I was amazed at first sight,” Neville told The Dodo. And it’s…

The beauty of nature is always simple, but it never stops to amaze us. Here is a Texan family that was lucky enough to see and capture a charming natural masterpiece: a tiny lizard that fell asleep inside a rose. The lucky Texan family accidentally stumbled upon this miraculous sleeping…

Environmentalist badass Greta Thunberg has won herself an ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for her work in rallying the world to tackle climate change, having scooped herself more than £80,000 in the process. The teenage activist was listed today as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, which is…

While the world’s attention has been focused on the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, indigenous people living there have warned that the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro pose a bigger threat to their existence. Rival groups have now come together to fight the government’s plans for the…

Call the doctor, we’re in love. What’s more awesome than a horse? A zebra. And what’s cuter than a zebra? A baby zebra. Do you know what’s even cuter? A baby zebra with spots instead of stripes! A rare polka dot baby zebra was spotted (pun intended) in Kenya, and…

It’s that time of the year again! Now in its 5th year, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards continue to delight everyone with the stellar quality of their entrants, in both a technical and comedic sense. Behind the laughter is a serious message from founders of the awards,  Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom…

A diver managed to capture on camera the moment he came to face-to-face with a giant anaconda. Check it out: Bartolomeo Bove and his pal Juca Ygarape were diving in the Formoso River in Brazilback in July when they encountered the Green Anaconda, the largest living snake in the world.…