Donovan Lewis brings tiger sharks from Maldives to Cheshire
A college lecturer is back in the UK from Maldives shark-hotspot Fuvahmulah with what he considers extraordinary footage…
Herd of deer found in Japan’s Southern Alps, raising ecosystem concerns
NAGANO, Japan – A large herd of deer was spotted this summer in the Southern Alps on the…
In 2013, St Agnes and Gugh began removing invasive rats brought by 18th-century shipwrecks; 12 years later, Manx shearwater breeding sites rose from 22 to a record 225
In the latest 2025 monitoring data, St Agnes and Gugh recorded 225 apparently occupied breeding sites (AOBs) for…
Hamster-sized marsupials get a ‘tunnel of love’ to find mates
The burramy, or mountain pygmy-possum, supports fragile Australian environments by dispersing seeds from mountain plum-pines across rocky alpine…
Kent project helps lions in the wild and Kenyan villagers
A Kent-based charity is funding a “pioneering” scheme helping villagers in Kenya and discouraging them from killing lions…
‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey | Endangered species
It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a…
In 1949, researchers testing underwater acoustics off Bermuda lowered an early recording system into the water and kept the unexplained sounds it picked up. Seventy-seven years later they were identified as what may be the oldest preserved recording of a whale singing, made before scientists understood humpback whale song.
A man’s voice reads a date onto a plastic disc. “The date, 7 March, 1949,” he says, as…
Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the…
In 1983, Britain reintroduced a butterfly declared extinct just four years earlier; the large blue has since surged 1,866% and now survives at 33 sites
A butterfly once declared extinct in Britain is now at the centre of one of the country’s most…
Two injured in black bear encounter near Bellingham
This marks the second human-black bear encounter in Whatcom County reported within the span of a month. Update:…
Britain released two beavers into a 10-hectare forest; 5 years later, peak water flow fell 46.6% and baseflow rose by 417% |
Eurasian beaver and kit by the River Tay in Scotland. Image Credit: Wikipedia In 2019, two Eurasian beavers…
In 2003, scientists took one pair of giant stick insects from Ball’s Pyramid to Melbourne Zoo; 11 years later, their descendants had produced more than 11,000 young |
A Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) is crawling on a hand. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Conservation…