Wildlife
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Scientists at Vatican conference are searching for a solution to the manmade ‘major extinction event’
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Brief letters: Squirrel cull | Housebuilding | PPE and LSE | More leftovers | La La Land
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NSW central coast schoolboy, aged 10, was given 12 vials of antivenom after he was bitten by a male spider hiding in a shoe
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UK academics say introduction of herpes virus could also cause ‘catastrophic ecosystem crashes’ in Australia
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Bees are better at problem solving than previously thought, and can learn tasks totally unlike their natural behaviour, say researchers
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Country Diary: Sandy Bedfordshire In an aerial tussle one raptor attacked from above until its opponent dropped so low it was grounded
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Fiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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DNA sequencing shows insects crossed oceans then migrated from treetops to the ground to adapt to ancient climate change
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Camera -trap footage shows a giant anteater going toe-to-toe with a jaguar in the Gurupi Biological Reserve in the Brazilian state of Maranhão
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Without camera traps we would never be privy to two endangered species sparring in the remote Amazon rainforest.
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Country diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk Once you are attuned to this avian tree propagation, it becomes a pleasure to find other instances
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Letters: Woolly mammoths | Transport investment | Baby boomers | Flat cakes | Weetabix |
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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Birdwatch In the Selous Game Reserve you can see seven different bee-eaters. Each one sports impossibly beautiful colours
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Winter in the Cairngorms national park can turn positively Arctic – perfect for Kari Herbert to give her small daughter a taste of the polar conditions, and creatures, she enjoyed as a child in Greenland
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Country diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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Sea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Radical plan to maintain diversity of gene pool proposes use of genetically modified chickens as surrogate mothers
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At a time of urban growth, nature is feared, subjugated and concreted over. But now, more than ever, we need the chaos of wildness
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Rodrick Ngulube was shot by poachers in West Petauke game management area, after rangers discovered carcasses of a warthog and zebra
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Great Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country
Country diary 50 years ago: A wild week in the Cairngorms