NATURE

The female orangutan inherited the disorder, meaning there could be more living in the forests.

The discovery shows that advanced aerodynamic feathers evolved much earlier than thought.

Missouri, Arkansas and Texas were worst hit by the storms.

Analysis of ancient bones paints a picture of healthy, sturdy horses.

The extreme tactic to escape a bad match has never been seen before in dragonflies.

History shows that building big walls can have devastating consequences for wildlife.

Individuals adopting elephant must pay 10m rupees but temples get them for free.

Taiwanese man survives but girlfriend dies three days before rescuers arrive.

'I don't mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me,' Sudan's profile reads.

Climate change is the major reason behind falling populations of these flightless birds.

Wax caterpillars can leave plastic shopping bags in tatters after just a few hours.

The otherworldly mats of floating strands were discovered at the top of Tagoro submarine volcano.

Blue whales have been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Tiny Homo floresiensis lived on Indonesian island of Flores until 52,000 BC.

In 2014 Emmanuel de Merode was hit by four bullets in an ambush but that won't stop him raising $1m.

14 sea lions have died this April from domoic acid poisoning.

Watch the much-loved British broadcaster and naturalist speak at the Earth Optimism event.

Worldwide, an elephant is poached for its ivory every 25 minutes.

At least 40 to 50 avalanches of mud and rock destroyed homes and inundated the streets in Manizales city in western Colombia.

Unusually strong anti-clockwise winds contributing to the movement of icebergs, experts say.

Dental injuries would have made catching other prey much more difficult.

Even with a ban on trophy hunting, population in the Soutpansberg Mountains fell by two thirds.

'I've never seen 10 to 20 all balled up like that,' said Christine Proffitt.

Large herbivores that thrived in the Ice Age faced a new life in boggy wetlands they weren't adapted to.

The 17-year-old girl was surfing with her dad in Kelp Beds near Esperance when the shark attacked.

The massive forest fire broke out in Mount Abu in Rajasthan on the morning of 14 April.

The 15-year-old giraffe delivered her fourth calf on Saturday (5 April) at Adventure Park's zoo in New York.

Shedding is totally normal – even if it looks weird.

The band have a reputation for playing at extremely loud volumes.