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Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”.

Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

In 1993, frogs were found dying en masse in Far North Queensland. When scientists analysed their bodies, they found something weird. Their small bodies were covered in spores.

Their point of origin was in arid western Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent. 

Imagine it’s winter, and you’re standing on a frozen lake or pond, when suddenly below your feet you notice hundreds of turtles. What are they doing down there below the ice?

Conservationists say Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation is ‘knocking to pieces’ a forest home to the greater glider

Storks, black kites and vultures feed at Los Barrios before migrating to Africa – but many now decide to stay

Peafowls rapidly expanding its distribution across Kerala

Exbury Gardens, New Forest, Hampshire: The male barely looks real, glittering in the canopy as if dusted with sapphires

NSW Fisheries survey from May reveals attempts at repopulating river after 2018-19 drought appear to have failed

Other lives: Dentist whose passion for wildlife and natural history began in childhood