There is no doubt the woodcock is a strange bird; although a wader, with a long wading bird’s bill, it frequents woodlands.

There can be few other British birds that are so steeped in mystery and folklore as the woodcock. Unusually, several of these rather suspect ‘country-tales’ are, astonishingly, true. There is no doubt ...

Welcome to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world-famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

His speed obviously varied – Stolz started motionless ... Creatures capable of matching Stolz’s speed, albeit only at peak and not necessarily for a sustained pace, include the white-tailed ...

I had never seen anything like it before. It seemed to be several feet high and about 8 feet long and it had on each side an ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

In one of his best stories of all time, our former shooting editor kills an enormous crocodile on safari — or at least, he ...

Some creatures can be merely fantasy beings like the turtle which "sailors moored their ship on it, taking the motionless animal ... it has a white beard, its body looks like that of a frog ...

The fox's hunting prowess involves stillness, sharp senses and dramatic leaps. By penetrating snowpack layers, they reach prey hidden beneath.

Watch these hunters use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey. Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to ...