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As the climate heats up rapidly, many species will struggle to avoid extinction. If they had time, they could evolve to the new environmental conditions. But they don’t. That’s where hybridisation could help. When related species interbreed, the flow of new genetic diversity could help them adapt to warmer environments.

A species of small, carnivorous marsupials is picking sex over sleep as males travel the equivalent of up to 40km a night to find a mate.

Scientists, bird lovers and farmers are meeting in southern NSW to discuss conservation efforts to "bring back the bunyip bird" aka the bittern.

Manuel Lopez was dive fishing in the sea around 11.30am on January 6 when he was attacked by a shark in front of his horrified co-worker in Mexico

RSPB Scotland have moved the seven beavers to the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve.

People tell us about their sightings as part of RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, with many species flourishing

London Zoo among names to sign petition calling on action from Rishi Sunak

The four-foot-long hungry sea creature had hit the headlines after chomping his way through £4,000 worth of stick in a popular fishing lake

Scientists are puzzled about the number of dead mammals recently discovered on the coastal stretch