Dog that hunts invasive ‘sea vomit’ creature wins animal of the year award
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums | Oceans
Shortly after 12.45pm, what remains of a 300-metre line goes taut. Somewhere beneath the murky green surface of…
The ‘Fish-Prawn’ Filmed Walking Backwards In The Deep Sea Is Not Actually A Hybrid
Deep on the floor of the northern South China Sea, a fish with a body like a shrimp…
There’s a rare and very strange animal in the Pyrenees that looks like a tiny, hairy elephant
Elusive, aquatic and wonderfully odd, the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is one of Europe’s most mysterious mammals. Found…
I saw ‘Whalefall’ with a man who really got trapped in a whale
Michael Packard wants you to know he wasn’t swallowed by a whale — he was inside one. Yes,…
Bird flu detected on Macquarie Island in southern elephant seal and gull samples
Bird flu has been detected in a seal and a gull on Macquarie Island, a remote outpost halfway…
Brazil pays fishers to catch invasive lionfish as 440 are removed: Why this venomous predator threatens the Abrolhos reefs, native fish and marine life along the coast
Imagine a fisherman pulling up his net and finding a fish that looks almost too beautiful to be…
Country diary: Thrilled by Darwin, and the wonder of worms | Animals
The garden beds are moistened by steady rain, but the ground is still unyielding. A blackbird hops across…
Researchers tracked 172 jaguars across the Americas. What they found could help protect the big cats
There’s a map of Central and South America in a new research paper that shows the core areas…
300 Bison Were Released In Oklahoma In 1993, And Now More Than 2,000 Roam The Prairie
Bison and cattle both graze the same prairie grass, yet only one of them actually helps the ecosystem…
Australian scavengers don’t just eat everything and slink away. They approach a carcass like a buffet
When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating…
The Australian species turning up where no one wants it
In briefA familiar sight in Australian waterways could be wreaking havoc far from home.There are concerns its surging…