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  • Jagged ambush bug

    Climate crisis has impact on insects’ colours and sex lives, study finds

    Scientists fear adaptations to global heating may leave some species struggling to mate successfully
  • Dr Isabel Hyman, a research scientist at the Australian Museum, inside a room full of breeding tanks of Campbell's keeled glass-snail

    How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

  • New South Wales farmer John Palmer, is a Wires volunteer.

    Wildlife rescue group Wires faces crunch vote amid volunteer discontent over funds raised after bushfires

  • The remains of a pig footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus)

    ‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets

  • Kit eating grass caught on camera at night in a black and white image

    National Trust celebrates birth of baby beaver one year after reintroduction

  • Experience
    Experience: We found a family of bears in our pool

  • The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a rare blue frog, a cheeky heron and climbing bears

  • Green-and-golden bell frogs peek out of round holes in masonry bricks painted dark grey

    The age of extinction
    ‘Frog saunas’ could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds

  • Scientists take a sample from the mammoth carcass

    Mulleted mammoth called Chris Waddle helps scientists crack creatures’ genetic code

  • Herring gull chicks.

    Herring gull chicks would rather have fish than your chips, finds study

  • Seagulls

    Science Weekly
    ‘Lesbian’ seagulls and ‘gay’ rams: the endless sexual diversity of nature – podcast

  • Jacob the lion as captured by Alexander Braczkowski who is a Griffith Uni student working on ways to monitor Agrican lion numbers.

    ‘Africa’s most resilient lion’ and his brother filmed making 1.5km swim across dangerous African river

  • A crate of snakes

    Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers

  • Tim Blackburn

    Britain has been invaded by parakeets – and it’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix

    Tim Blackburn
  • Two lesser black-backed gulls standing on a grassy patch facing opposite directions

    Birdwatch
    Birdwatch at the cricket: wagtails, falcons and gulls – but no ducks

  • Fried silk worms pupas in Thailand. Silk worms are among the species on Singapore’s list of insects approved for human consumption.

    Singapore has approved 16 insects to eat as food: here’s everything you need to know

  • A grizzly bear in the woods.

    Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta

  • a sign reads "Volusia County Florida" on a beach

    Shark bites teen training to be a lifeguard in Florida

  • Elephants including a calf roaming through the African bush

    Spanish tourist trampled to death by elephants in South Africa

  • Wild dingoes near Alice Springs

    Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

    Newly recovered DNA shows the predators share little genetic ancestry with domestic dogs and are descended from ancient animals from China
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