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THOUSANDS of extremely rare Partula snails bred at Edinburgh Zoo are to be released into the wild in French Polynesia to help restore the…

Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower.

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, whalers killed roughly 2 million large whales in the Southern Ocean. Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale, were reduced…

European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters

For as long as scientists have studied trees, we have categorised them into two types based on the sort of wood they make. Softwoods include pines and firs and generally grow faster than hardwoods, like oaks and maples, which can take several decades to mature and make a denser wood.

Police in Norway said Monday that foul play was not suspected in the death of a beluga whale whose unusual harness had sparked suspicions it had been trained by Russia as a spy.

Eels that have been swallowed by fish have been recorded for the first time sliding tail-first back out of their would-be predators' stomach and escaping out of their gills, a study said Monday.

Japanese eels take an average of under a minute to escape fish gut, scientists find

Eels use tail-first technique to back up digestive tract of fish towards oesophagus before coming out of gills

TWO Scottish wildcats born in captivity have died since their release into the wild ...

The golden eagle ‘likely had a behavioral disorder’ that prompted the attacks