Looking to travel as far away as possible? How about a journey to the centre of the Earth? Covão dos Conchos might just take you there. The mystical waterhole in Portugal’s Lagoa da Serra da Estrela looks like something from a sci-fi movie. Don’t let …

A huge, well, love machine. Aplysia vaccaria, the larges sea slug species on earth. Image credit: HerbziKal Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug inhabiting the waters …

The extremely well-camouflaged mata mata turtle dresses like a piece of bark with spiky ridged scales, and sucks in prey by creating a vacuum. And it appears to be always smiling. With its disproportionately large head and elongated thick neck, the mata …

The Greenland shark is currently the longest-living vertebrate known on Earth, according to scientists. Image credit: Dive Magazine The ages of 28 Greenland sharks were determined using radiocarbon dating of eye proteins, revealing that one female shark …

This monster from the deep has netted a British angler a place in the record books. The whopper, caught by plucky Chris Grimmer, is the biggest albino catfish ever caught by an angler. The 8ft beast tipped the scales at 194lbs – 2lbs heavier than the …

A ‘monster’ catfish could be the largest ever caught at a staggering 9ft 4 1/4 inches, after an Italian angler fought with the bottom-dwelling beast for 43 minutes before eventually reeling it in. What started as a normal day of fishing on the river Po …

Dragon’s Blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) – Socotra island Narrates the story of the first drop of blood between the two brothers “Abel and Cain”, Dragon’s Blood is the most important long-lived tree on the island, which stenographs the most important …

Mother Nature is perfect is so many ways, and the rarest its beautiful creation are, the more fascinating it becomes. It’s also the case of this extremely rare white humpback whale. Many of us doesn’t know those animals even exist. So imagine how lucky …

A recently published video on YouTube has sparked a frenzy among the online community, showcasing the sight of remarkably gigantic lobsters. The YBS Youngbloods, a group dedicated to nature research and exploration, have revealed that they have never …

Using moves that would make any rock climber jealous, these death-defying goats expertly make their way up an almost vertical dam. Photographer Paolo Seimandi, 34, captured the amusing moment the herd of alpine ibexes decided to scale the brick wall in …