Nature's wonders often defy human logic. Animals possess astonishing abilities honed by evolution for survival. Octopuses ...

The companion book to the six-part Discovery Channel series, Weird Nature is an astonishing exploration of nature's strangest behavior. The ingenuity of all kinds of animals is celebrated including ...

5 Weird Animal Habits usually sounds like a fun list, but the truth is that animals genuinely carry some of the strangest behaviours on Earth. When you look closely, you find creatures that fake death ...

Nature doesn’t try to impress us. It just exists, quietly doing strange, brilliant things whether we’re watching or not. We ...

As we enter the dog days of summer, people will try all sorts of things to escape the heat, from sweating in front of a fan to drinking a piping hot cup of tea (which actually does help). But body ...

We talk about one of the earliest animal senses, – chemosensation — or our sense of taste and smell. We discuss how animals use these senses to explore their environment and communicate, and how that ...

Just when we thought we've seen it all, up pops some bizarre but adorable-looking animal that we never even knew existed. It's almost like unlocking a secret level in a video game... The reality is ...

Some creatures may look harmless at first glance, but nature has equipped them with surprising and sometimes deadly abilities. In this video, we’ll explore seven unusual animals whose hidden defenses ...

Euan is a councillor within the Biodiversity Council, a member of the Ecological Society of Australia and president of the Australian Mammal Society. Beyond ghoulish costumes and mountains of lollies, ...

Much of the three-part “Planet Weird,” which goes out of its way to find the nutty in nature, is simultaneously fascinating and disgusting—the much sought-after synthesis of wildlife programming: ...