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Matthew Smith Rockpool Rookies

Adorable seal pups among 15 spectacular images from Underwater Photographer of the Year awards

Matty Smith’s photo of abandoned southern elephant seal pups takes the top prize
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Picathartes: ancient birds that live in the forest in Congo

Forget gender wars! These bizarre birds have had equality sorted for some 44 million years - watch them in action

These ground-loving birds mate for life and work together to protect their young
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Blue wildebeest drinking at the river on the great migration

Watch agonising BBC footage of deadly crocodiles attacking animals oblivious to the danger not once, but twice... You will be yelling at the screen

Watch incredible BBC footage of wildebeests at the water's edge going back into crocodile-infested waters, narrated by David Attenborough
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Caiman eye

“After nearly an hour of brutal fighting, it’s all over.” An otter family must defend its pups from a caiman. What happens next is extraordinary

In footage captured for the BBC TV programme Giant Otters of the Amazon, a caiman refuses to back down from fighting with a family of otters
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Kelp forest

It can grow higher than the leaning Tower of Pisa and is the tallest living structure in our oceans

Magical kelp forests grow all along the west coast of the United States, especially around southern California.
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Bald eagles

Power and majesty of bald eagles revealed in 16 staggering photos

Spectacular images of bald eagles – from the snowy mountains of Alaska to the dramatic inlets of the Canadian coast.
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Tagged Vancouver Island marmot

“We did this. People did this.” How Canada’s rarest mammal was pulled back from the brink of extinction

Canada’s rarest mammal was on the brink of extinction but, in a remarkable conservation success story, it is on the road to recovery
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Arabian hare

It has huge ears and can run twice as fast as Usain Bolt - meet the amazing hare returning to Saudi Arabia's northwestern desert

20 Arabian hares have been moved to the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve as part of a project to restore populations in the area.
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Bee-fly

It's round and furry, has a huge tube-like mouth sticking out of its face – and it sucks the life out of bee grubs

Meet the extraordinary bee-fly – one of nature's greatest mimics.
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Conservationists releasing a cheetah

“It’s a kind of Tinder for big cats.” Cheetahs were dying out in Africa, so conservationists tried something new

The cheetah is back – thanks to a smart release project that now sees populations flourishing in South Africa and beyond
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Monitor lizard in Bangkok

“There’s danger in this urban paradise.” Huge carnivorous lizards stalk this popular city park alongside humans

The world’s second largest lizard has made this Indonesian park their home – alongside humans
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Snow geese

“Like being in the middle of a snow globe.” Thousands of noisy white birds are flooding into Pennsylvania, Missouri and Maryland

A whiteout of wings and a riotous racket signal the departure, or arrival, of these beautiful birds
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King vulture - bird of prey

"It appears as one of the ugliest animals in the book The Ugly Five and doesn't look a million miles away from a turkey" – 12 weirdest birds of prey on the planet

They are fast and dangerous but these birds of prey are also supremely weird. Here's 12 of the oddest hunters of the sky
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Rare white humpback whale

"A memory that will live with me forever." Extraordinary white whale image wins World Nature Photographer of the Year

The incredible winning image was taken by Jono Allen in the Vava’u, Tonga – an area where many humpback whales migrate
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Great white shark

In 2015, great white sharks vanished from Australia's Neptune Islands. Experts are still trying to work out why

Many researchers thought the two-month absence was caused by the predation of a white shark by a group of orcas. Now a new study suggests there may be other reasons for their disappearance.
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Whale shark in Maldives

As darkness fell, snorkellers in the Maldives filmed this giant engulfing its prey

Whale sharks are the biggest fish on the planet but they feed on tiny plankton.
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Alpine longhorn beetle sitting on branch in spring

Can beetles really be beautiful? Oh yes... Meet 12 incredible-looking beetles that will make you rethink what a creepy crawly looks like

Discover some of the world's most amazing-looking beetles, from the giraffe beetle to the tortoise beetle
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Welwitschia mirabilis

It’s longer than a blue whale, is thousands of years old and drinks fog – meet this weird ‘living fossil’

This living fossil (having unchanged for more than 200 million years) can survive some of the harshest conditions on Earth
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It looks like a twig and a couple of dead leaves - but this is no ordinary twig. It's a master of disguise and a ruthless killer

Its one of the most brutal insects on the planet...
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One mile down, iron-rich waters, toxic fluids, and 81°C acidic vents made this volcano seem uninhabitable – yet scientists filmed something staggering

Eel City was discovered in 2005 but, when scientists returned in 2017, they couldn’t find any sign of the mysterious place
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A gray wolf from an alpha pack

Watch hilarious BBC footage of what happens when Dad Wolf disapproves of his daughter's choice but she only has eyes for the ‘bad boy’...

While alpha wolves discourage their offspring to mate, sometimes kids just won't listen. Watch what happens when a daughter wolf sneaks off
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Oysters

It’s bigger than the City of London and is home to a whopping 7.5 billion residents – or more

The largest oyster reef restoration in the world is over three square miles and brings many benefits to the ecosystem
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What's the difference between snakes and sow worms?

They may look similar but that's as far as it goes...
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