New Zealand whale freed from fishing net in ‘particularly dangerous’ multi-day operation | New Zealand
A whale that became entangled in a large fishing net and was dragging four buoys and 100 metres…
Country diary: A close-up view of a shimmering beauty | Wildlife
The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) is aptly named. This loveliest of damselflies is on the wing now across…
Japan’s Punch the monkey and his troop to get air conditioning amid searing heat
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Mule deer already using incomplete $20m wildlife bridge in California | California
A trio of mule deer have already scuttled across a not-quite-finished $20m wildlife bridge in Siskiyou county, marking…
Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds
“This design assessed whether bees could solve the task without continuous perceptual feedback,” the authors wrote. All told,…
‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution | Environment
Peque, a small black howler monkey, scratches her head as she sits on a thick wooden branch in…
“It carefully measures insect body parts for size, chewing down the ones that don’t fit…” This carnivore decorates its home in bones of its prey
Like many geographically-isolated locations, Hawai’i is an extraordinary evolutionary site that contains many unusual invertebrates. In 2025, a research…
World’s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils
Science news By James Ashworth First published 3 June 2026 Fossil fragments found in the UK have been…
Specieswatch: Scientists trace haunting sea thrums to humpback whales | Whales
If you stand on certain shorelines and listen carefully you might just hear deep rumbling noises. Sharp-eared fishers,…
Tasmanian devil named Mary thwarts Australian search team
A Tasmanian devil named Mary successfully eluded searchers equipped with a thermal-imaging drone for a third day after…
A cheetah can go from a standstill to about 60 miles an hour in roughly three seconds, out-accelerating many sports cars, but it can’t hold that speed for long
Three seconds. That is roughly how long a cheetah needs to go from a dead stop to about…
Why bringing back wolves could improve ‘human safety on the roads’
Reintroducing wolves into Ireland could help improve road safety by controlling the deer population, an environmentalist has argued. …