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…
Call for public to assist in nationwide hedgehog count
Hedgehog Conservation Ireland and researchers at University of Galway and Oxford are calling on people to take part…
Highland rewilding estate culls wild boar following ‘substantial increase’ in numbers; Highlands Rewilding, founded by former director of Greenpeace Jeremy Leggett, carried out the cull on the Bunloit Estate, near Inverness
Wild boar pictured in the Highlands by Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0 Wild boar on a Highland estate have…
Concerns for peregrines on Trimley water tower due for demolition
Jon Huckle, who runs an ecological consultancy on the Suffolk-Norfolk border, said any works “would need to be…
A gobsmacking 500,000 babies born at one time in one place… That’s one colossal delivery room
The plains of the Serengeti turn into nature’s largest maternity ward every year between January and March, when…
Bank of England: Dolphins, puffins and dolphins could feature on future banknotes
Last year it was revealed that banknotes produced by the Bank of England were to get their first…
Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research
Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading centre of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees…
Glasgow locals urged to ‘keep an eye out for Isa’ after peregrine chick fledges prematurely
The falcon chick hatched at the end of April along with brother Winston, but it appears she has…
Cody Johnson fires back at critics, calls Alaska grizzly bear hunt a ‘conservationist effort’
Proposal to ban hunting, fishing in Oregon met with backlash A controversial Oregon initiative seeking to ban hunting…
Watch as osprey chicks hatch at Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes reserve near Dunkeld
Two new osprey chicks have hatched at a wildlife reserve in Perth and Kinross. The first chick hatched…
Sumatran tigers at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens introduced
Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens said the introductions of its two Sumatran tigers have gone smoothly. The pair had…
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…