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The painted woolly bat is brilliantly colored, but a new study warns against using them as decorations

Deep in Colombia's northwestern forests, an orchid enthusiast has gathered a colorful collection of nearly 25,000 specimens, some of which he is cloning to protect them from extinction.

Activities associated with cocaine trafficking threaten two-thirds of the most important landscapes in Central America for 196 forest bird species, including 67 migratory species. This is the key takeaway from a study that colleagues and I published in June 2024 in the journal Nature Sustainability.

Exposure to cocaine could severely impact shark health, potentially damaging their DNA, and impairing their ability to metabolise fats, findings reveal

There are concerns the stimulant could make sharks more erratic

Langstone, Havant: This curious behaviour is one I witnessed this week in my garden

Researchers found that the rumbles are initiated by the most socially integrated, and often the most dominant, males in close-knit social groups.

Giant panda reclining in cloudy hills eating bamboo, European bison picking their way through gloomy and lichen-draped forests and Cape mountain zebra roaming arid mountains. Ideas of how and where these species live are fixed in the public imagination, in conservation practice and even in some species’ names – but…

Port Stephens Council to boost funds from biobank credit sale.

Sparrows were taken into captivity after numbers dwindled – and this week experts released 1,000th bird back into wild

In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years