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Powerful images show beauty and brutality of birds like you've never seen them before
See 14 extraordinary photos and videos of birds from the Audubon Photography Awards 2025.
Odd animal seen 'flying' over seafloor in Caribbean. But that's not the strangest thing it does
Flying gurnards tap the sand as they skim along the bottom of the ocean. Researchers say the unusual behaviour has a vital purpose.
Night mission in India leads scientists to one of the rarest songs on Earth
Birdwatchers have rediscovered the big-eyed, long-legged Jerdon’s courser in south-east India, putting it back on the list of critically endangered birds.
Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from deadly chlamydia
The newly developed, single-dose vaccine could be a key tool in protecting the tree-dwelling marsupials from the chlamydia epidemic, say researchers.
Enormous piles of rotting seaweed mount up on Florida beaches – and they're snaring sea turtle hatchlings
Record amounts of sargassum seaweed washing up on the coast of Florida are making it harder for vulnerable sea turtle hatchlings to reach the ocean, new research finds.
There's a mysterious animal in the tropical forests of Panama that waves at predators – in a very scary way
The creature's strange leg-waving display has baffled scientists for years. Now they know why it does it...
85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs found in China. What they reveal is wild
What the researchers discovered could change our understanding of not only dinosaur evolution and extinction, but global environmental change too…
Octopuses could help us build robots that rescue people from collapsed buildings. Here's how
New research reveals octopuses use all their arms for different tasks – a discovery that could inform the design of life-saving robots.
Satellite images capture great wildebeest migration from space. A close look reveals something startling
Taken 400 miles above the Earth's surface, the images suggest East Africa's Serengeti-Mara wildebeest population may be less than half the size previously estimated.
Research vessel spends 45 days in remote Arctic – and finds living thing moving inside the ice
Using ice cores and underwater drones, scientists found something gliding within the frozen water. They say it changes what we know about how life survives in extreme environments.
"Truly astounding": rivers in Alaska are turning orange. Some are so bright they're visible from space
Scientists warn of widespread ecological damage as thawing Arctic permafrost turns once-pristine rivers toxic with metals.
Scientists just discovered a new (amazing) use for this strange monkey's gigantic nose
Only found on the island of Borneo, the proboscis monkey is one of the world's most bizarre-looking animals. Now a new study has revealed a hidden function for its peculiar nose.
When a colossal sea creature washed up on a beach in Britain, experts were called in to solve the mystery
Arriving at the scene, they identified the animal as a fin whale, the second largest creature on Earth after the blue whale.
Critically endangered sharks being sold as food in US grocery stores, new study finds
Shark meat sold in grocery stores, seafood markets and via online vendors often comes from endangered species and is frequently mislabelled, say researchers.
Camera trap hidden deep in Amazon Rainforest captures elusive predators doing something never filmed before
The footage was captured in the Serra do Pardo National Park in the Brazilian Amazon.
Megafish the size of grizzly bears. But now scientists say these giants of the Mekong River are shrinking – and they know why
Once weighing hundreds of kilograms, these enormous riverfish are decreasing in size, highlighting the need for enhanced protection.
Peculiar deep-sea creature with huge eyes discovered 3,628m down off Californian coast
Scientists say the strange-looking animal is one of three new species of snailfish found on a recent expedition to the bottom of the Monterey Canyon off the west coast of USA.
"Our hearts stopped": scientists unearth 150-million-year-old animals in Germany. Post-mortem reveals violent thing that killed them
Analysis of two exquisitely preserved baby pterosaurs fossils shows both animals had a broken wing when they died.
'Ghost sharks' are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads
Researchers have discovered that the bizarre-looking spotted ratfish has a row of real teeth between its eyes.
Researchers discover 'ghost' hiding in Australian caves. Here's what's going on
After analysing a series of fossils found in caves across southern Australia, scientists say they have identified a new species of extinct marsupial.
There's a bird in Africa that kills nestlings and then throws them out of trees – and researchers have no idea why
Sociable weavers have been observed killing unrelated birds before tossing them out of their huge nests. Scientists are trying to figure out what's going on.
In 2020, humans suddenly vanished from a popular bay in Hawai‘i. What happened next was remarkable
A seven-month break from tourism transformed Hawai‘i’s Hanauma Bay into a haven for wildlife, new study reveals.
India's deadliest snakes to become even more dangerous, new study suggests
A new study warns shifting snake ranges driven by climate change could put millions more people at risk of deadly bites.
1.1-million-year-old mammoth discovered in Siberian wilderness. What scientists find in its DNA has got them excited
A groundbreaking study has shed new light on the microbiomes of mammoths by examining hundreds of remains, including those of a steppe mammoth found near the Adycha River in northeastern Russia.
