Megan Shersby
Megan Shersby
Naturalist, writer and content creator
Megan is a naturalist, writer and content creator. She is also a bookworm and a keen board gamer. She is the former editorial and digital co-ordinator at BBC Wildlife, and wrote features and sections for both the print magazine and discoverwildlife.com, including the Q&A and Go Wild sections, Poo Corner and News Species Discovery, the weekly e-newsletter and the social media accounts. Her features have included olms (cave salamanders) in Slovenia, arapaima (very big fish) in Guyana, and the role of hippos as ecosystem engineers in Zambia. She has also contributed to the website and magazine of BBC Countryfile Magazine, and has hosted some its podcast episodes. Prior to joining BBC Wildlife in 2016, she gained a degree in BSc(Hons) Animal Science, undertook behavioural research on zebras and dwarf mongooses, and worked in environmental education for a number of conservation charities.
Recent articles by Megan Shersby

Largest snake species in the world discovered in Amazon rainforest – and it's a whopper!

A 17-year study has led to the discovery of a new species of green anaconda – the largest and heaviest snake in the world.
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Scientists may be about to save the world's rarest rhino. Here's what they're doing

A ground-breaking procedure involving the world's first IVF rhino pregnancy could save the northern white rhino from extinction.
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Unusually high levels of fin whale DNA found in blue whale genome, finds study

Thanks to hybridisation between fin and blue whales, and a phenomenon called introgression, blue whales in the North Atlantic have surprising levels of fin whale DNA.
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The olm: meet the 'human fish', a blind cave-dwelling predator that lives to 100

Journey deep beneath the ground in search of one of the world's weirdest creatures – the olm, a cave-inhabiting 'dragon' that is as elusive as it is peculiar.
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Almost mythical and incredibly cute pink fairy armadillo even stranger than first thought, say scientists

The extremely rare desert-dwelling armadillo, endemic to central Argentina, looks a bit like a shrimp with claws and spends most of its life underground. Now, new research has revealed that the mammal has 'entirely unique' double skin too...
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Extremely rare half-female, half-male bird spotted in Colombia for the first time in more than 100 years

The green honeycreeper, photographed and filmed at a bird feeding station in Columbia, is half green and half blue, with an ovary on the female side and a teste on the male side – meaning theoretically it could mate as either.
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Polar bear killed by bird flu in Alaska as virus continues to spread around the globe

Bird flu continues to spread amongst mammals, with the death of a polar bear in Alaska and infections in elephant and fur seals on South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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"It's hot out here," said the caterpillar. "Is it?" replied the butterfly. Lepidoptera larvae more vulnerable to climate change than adults

Butterflies and moths are better at thermoregulating as adults than they are as caterpillars, prompting worry for future heatwaves, reveals new study.
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6 of the weirdest fungi in the world, from dead man's fingers to 'zombie fungi'

Fungi can be very strange. Here's our round-up of some of the weirdest fungi on the planet.
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Leucism vs albinism: what's the difference?

Megan Shersby takes a look at how leucism differs to albinism
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