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“My chronic illness keeps me up at night, but listening to tawny owls helps me cope”: How these enchanting birds helped one writer find solace

In the company of owls, poet Polly Atkin finds solace from debilitating illness
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BBC Winterwatch will be returning in 2026 – but with a new location next to the largest sea lough in the British Isles

Everything you need to know about BBC Winterwatch, including when it's on and how to watch
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83 whale bone tools pulled from Bay of Biscay caves are oldest ever discovered

New research, based or remains found in Spain and France, shows ancient humans used whale bones as tools as far back as 20,000 years.
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UK government proposes ban on bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas

Government proposals to ban bottom trawling in more vulnerable marine habitats aim to protect important and rare underwater life.
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100-million-year-old fossil found INSIDE belly of gigantic dinosaur in Australian desert

In a world-first discovery, fossilised gut contents from a sauropod reveal what these enormous dinosaurs ate.
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Lost-long ‘singing’ insect returns to Britain after vanishing three decades ago

Once extinct in Britain, the New Forest cicada has been reintroduced to Hampshire thanks to a groundbreaking conservation project.
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Community-led conservation offers new hope for the world's most trafficked mammal

A new action plan unites experts and communities to protect pangolins in southern Africa.
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Dark taxa: why scientists are desperate to know more about this secret network of underground life

Huge numbers of subterranean fungi remain unknown to science, posing problems for conservation around the world, say researchers in a new study.
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Researchers catch more than 100 swamp alligators in Georgia – and find something worrying in their blood

The discovery raises concerns for US wildlife, waterways and human health, according to a new study.
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