For all its very logical and sensible legends and traditions, Christmas has quite a few strange ones too (like, say, ...

Some animals can literally sniff out a situation ... sharp quills that they can splay out if they feel threatened by night-time predators. Photograph by Joel Sartore Having the right tools ...

Barn owl chicks are always hungry. So their parents have to feed them all the time. Owls aren't the only animals that come out at night. Lots of other animals are nocturnal too. Prickly hedgehogs ...

In 1893, Shiras captured the first known night-time photograph of animals, a striking image of three deer leaping away from the burst of his flash. Over the following decades Shiras’ night ...