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May 12, 2026, 01:32 PM - 5 min read
It is his jousting behaviour that has enabled Bruce to win every one of his contests and become the undisputed king of the circus. So effective is this novel behaviour that Bruce seldom has to fight, making him more relaxed than the other birds over whom he reigns supreme.
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May 5, 2026, 01:10 PM - 6 min read
Limiting summer bird feeding also limits the spread of disease, which happens more prominently when birds gather in numbers to share food and water.
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May 3, 2026, 01:30 PM - 6 min read
Birds are also adapting to humans. In urban areas, wildlife is subjected to human-made noise such as cars and machinery. Consequently, urban birds now sing at a higher pitch than rural birds as higher-pitched songs carry better over low-pitch urban noise. And it’s not just the pitch of the song that has been altered.
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April 27, 2026, 02:00 PM - 6 min read
A new study of two whale fossils, with preservedfragments of shark teeth, suggests the modern descendants of these animalscould once again roam the southern region of the North Sea, between the UK,Belgium and Denmark.
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April 26, 2026, 01:00 PM - 5 min read
The new fossils were found in the Jurassic red beds of the Middle Atlas Mountains show that this ankylosaur was covered in spikes that were fused directly to its skeleton. They also show that the tail weapons characteristic of ankylosaurs evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed.
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April 20, 2026, 12:38 PM - 8 min read
Bees help farmers grow the foods people love to eat, everything from apples to almonds. Along with other pollinators – such as flies, butterflies and moths – bees help nearly 80 per cent of flowering plants produce fruit and seeds, which in turn support birds and other wildlife.
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April 8, 2026, 03:41 PM - 6 min read
A cup falling to the floor, a car speeding past on the street or a series of lightning strikes – for us humans, an event on the scale of a second is typically a blur, something we can just about register but not in much detail. But animals all process a different amount of visual information in a second.
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March 26, 2026, 12:37 PM - 5 min read
Cacti are icons of slow growth. A towering saguaro may take a decade to reach an inch tall and the psychedelic peyote takes decades to mature. Yet the cactus family is one of the fastest-evolving plant groups on Earth. Over the past 20 to 35 million years, around 1,850 cacti species have come into existence. Although this sounds slow, in geological time it is the blink of an eye.
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March 24, 2026, 05:36 PM - 4 min read
By combining GPS data with waterbird counts, and analyses of regurgitated pellets, scientists have estimated that an average of 400kg of plastics, plus more than two tonnes of other debris such as glass, textiles or ceramics, are deposited by this gull species into the lake each year.
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March 23, 2026, 02:28 PM - 6 min read
Feral and free-roaming pets increasingly threaten wildlife conservation. There is a legislative gap to address the impacts of pets on wildlife. Harmonised EU legislation is needed to align animal welfare and conservation aims.
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March 20, 2026, 05:03 PM - 3 min read
Supreme Court warned that destruction of wildlife habitats in protected areas will attract penalties under multiple laws, taking note of illegal sand mining in National Chambal Sanctuary.
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March 5, 2026, 02:19 PM - 6 min read
The picture for 2026 is complicated. Although flooding can kill overwintering eggs and adults, a mild wet winter will have reduced slug mortality. It may also affect slug predators.
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