Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them, like the giant sloth or the woolly rhino, were generally gentle. Others, like the saber-toothed tiger and the dire ...

Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some communities believing the sounds to be children calling for lost parents.

During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives of individual young animals growing up in the wild. They captured the incredible real life stories ...

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KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - woodlands and grasslands. BBC.

along with encouraging citizens to take action in helping protect and preserve the planet. After all, Mother Earth is the only home humans, plants and animals have got, so taking care of her is ...