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A northern sea otter who was found alone and malnourished in the remote Alaska town of Seldovia in October has a new home in Chicago

Cabbage white butterflies – Pieris rapae – are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females have a pair of black spots and males a single spot on each forewing. But their velvety…

Researchers also found jays tend to settle for a less preferred food option when another bird is present.

New DNA tracking method could save polar bears from extinction

New research explores the positive impact of bird feeding on human well-being and calls for policy considerations.

The Scottish Government’s biodiversity strategy has been branded “meaningless” and a “paper exercise in delay” by marine conservation…

There was a national outcry when the iconic tree was felled overnight in September

Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to be…

The De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 on the north-western coast of South Africa, and later declared officially lost. This iridescent blind mole with hearing superpowers evades contact with humans and “swims” through sand dunes, making it very difficult to locate. But in November 2023, a team…

Experts hail amateur lepidopterist Barbara Mulligan's discovery as a 'real coup for citizen science'