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Sir David Attenborough pictured in the Maasai Mara in Kenya while filming David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. © Keith Scholey/Silverback Films

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Future food - Akkoub, Gundelia tournefortii (Credit - RBG Kew)

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A pygmy marmoset and a katydid. © Apple TV+

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Bojer's skink is endemic to Mauritius, but while it was once widespread across the islands, it is now critically endangered. © Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Threatened Mauritian reptiles rescued from disastrous oil spill

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Endangered African grey parrots rescued from wildlife traffickers

Only a few of the ostracods in the amber piece could be studied using light microscopy, like this individual of the new species Myanmarcypris hui. Its antennae extend from the bivalved shell. Most other specimens lie too deep in the amber or the view is obstructed by debris particles. © He Wang and Xiangdong Zhao

100 million year old giant sperm is world’s oldest

Thistle-down velvet ant. © Joseph S. Wilson

Remarkable similarity between fluffy ant and fruit is not due to mimicry

Pelophylax nigromaculatus frog. © Shinji Sugiura

Aquatic beetle survives being swallowed alive by frogs

Sir David Attenborough. © Sam Barker/BBC

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Giant horned frog tadpole. © Benjamin Tapley/ZSL

DNA detective work to match unusual tadpoles to adult frogs

Himalayan mountains in clouds in Nepal. © BBC

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War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita. © Jacky Sloane/Keo Films

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A Somali sengi at Assamo in Djibouti. © Steven Heritage

A sengi species ‘lost’ for half a century has been rediscovered in a surprising location

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