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Wildlife

25 July 2024

  • A skylark standing in tall grass

    Country diary
    Country diary: Watching a skylark watching me

    Northam Burrows, Devon: Normally noted for their jump-jet takeoffs, this one is grounded, in among the wind-blown grasses, utterly still

24 July 2024

  • A bee on a flower

    Revealed: Tories failed to do impact check before approving banned pesticide

  • A New Zealand weka bird

    Reality TV contestant apologises for killing and eating protected New Zealand bird

23 July 2024

  • The greater glider

    Australia’s environment could be fixed and threatened species saved for just 0.3% of GDP, experts say

  • Extreme close up of fire ant

    A true California hot spot: fire ants invade town loved by celebrities

  • An orange tiger with black stripes sniffs a pile of white snow and a pink cylinder, which is probably frozen blood.

    It’s snow miracle: zookeepers in Phoenix surprise animals with icy wonderland

  • Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) at the sea surface. Santa Maria, Azores, August.<br>E46396 Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) at the sea surface. Santa Maria, Azores, 14th August 2016

    Wild sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine, scientists say

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

  • From the agencies
    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • Country diary
    Country Diary: Is my magpie friend using ant acid to get high?

22 July 2024

  • Chimpanzees

    Chimpanzees communicate in similar quick-fire fashion to humans, study shows

  • A colleague of Michel Sawan holds a kestrel with a bandaged wing

    The age of extinction
    ‘Massacred for TikTok likes’: is social media feeding the slaughter of 2.6m birds in Lebanon?

21 July 2024

  • small speckled bird sits on a person's hand

    Florida grasshopper sparrow: scientists hail resurgence of endangered bird

  • Rosemary Grant in front of flower beds in bloom in the grounds of Guyot Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey.

    Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

  • Geoffrey Lean

    How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

    Geoffrey Lean
  • A bat and a moth

    Where are all the bats? – alarm as numbers fall in England

20 July 2024

  • A vivid red spiky flower on a tree, seen against a blue sky

    Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

    Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules
  • Arion vulgaris also known as the Spanish slug in motion on a tree stump.

    ‘They’ve been something else this year’: slugs wreak havoc on UK gardens

    Mild and moist spring and cool start to summer have created ideal conditions for the molluscs to thrive
  • A small heath butterfly resting on a grass panicle

    Country diary
    Country diary: An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies

    Green Beach, Sefton coast, Merseyside: It was a glorious day in a biodiversity hotspot that’s full of different habitats – where were they all?

19 July 2024

  • black bear sitting by a pole

    Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear

    County sheriff says bear by side of highway in Santa Rosa Beach is ‘clearly not in the mood for pictures’
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