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Annual migration sees whales journeying from cold feeding grounds of Antarctica

Deep Dale, Derbyshire: Their incredible persistence as a songbird is matched only by their gift for mimicry

People asked to avoid swarms of stinging insects as truck hauling 250 million bees rolls over near the Canadian border.

Scientists don’t know what caused the majority of the deaths

Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins

Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical cicadas emerge across parts of the Eastern U.S., including in Georgia, southern Ohio, Kentucky, Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and Long Island, New York.

The rescued moths can grow as large as a human hand

Two moths the size of a hand, patterned in brown and pink around four translucent sections like window panes, mate for hours hanging from a line alongside cocoons like the ones they emerged from just hours earlier

The RHS has teamed up with the RSPB for the first time to create a show garden focused on the birds at Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.