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Rush veneer moths @ Will Hawkes

Mega insect migration stuns scientists

An Aphaenogaster ant holds an oak gall containing wasp larvae. Researchers discovered an elaborate relationship among ants, wasps and oak trees. © Andrew Deans/Penn State

Boy’s discovery reveals “mind-blowing” plant-insect interaction

A rock hyrax, with brown fur, perched on a light orange coloured rock.

How male rock hyraxes woo their potential mates

The decline in greenfinch numbers has been linked to an outbreak of trichomonosis. © Tom Meaker/EyeEm/Getty

Bird disease spread by garden bird feeders

Isopod against a black background.

Isopods found to fertilise seaweed in our oceans

The death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) is famous for the human skull on its thorax. The moth species features in horror movie Silence of the Lambs and on the film cover art. © Robin Bush/Getty

How death’s-head hawkmoths navigate long distances

Jumping spider (Evarcha arcuata). © ljphoto7/Getty

Do jumping spiders dream?

Overall winner, 'Costa Rican Cloud Forest' by Cy Baker

Vote in the BBC Wildlife People’s Choice Award

An Icelandic whaling ship transports a fin whale to a processing plant in June 2022. © Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty

Mark Carwardine: we may yet be a step closer to a permanent end to Icelandic whaling

A southeast Greenland polar bear on glacier, or freshwater, ice. © Thomas W Johansen/NASA Oceans Melting Greenland

Polar bear population hunts without sea ice

Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger © Colossal Biosciences

Project plans to bring back the extinct thylacine

Bumblebee on a blooming linden flower.

Why do we find dead bumblebees under lime trees?

A humpback whale under the water

Humpback whales can learn songs from other populations, study reveals

Spix's macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a species of parrot that has been extinct in the wild for over 20 years. © Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP)

Extinct parrot from Rio makes a comeback in Brazil