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On Endemic bird day step out and see the birds of your neighbourhood

The penguin breeding season has begun at Edinburgh Zoo, and to celebrate the birth of the first gentoo chicks of the year, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has shared some adorable snaps.

A project that uses citizen science to track pelican movements has been expanded across inland New South Wales, as the water bird thrives following consecutive wet years.

A toddler in Australia's Northern Territory has become the third person this year in the country to die from the mosquito-borne virus Murray Valley encephalitis with health authorities issuing a warning

Next year is expected to be a big moment for cicadas, when two major broods — a 17-year group and 13-year group — both emerge in Illinois, potentially wreaking havoc for agriculture.

Sharks are cold-blooded and their body temperatures are largely regulated by their immediate environment.

David Attenborough, who marked his 97th birthday this week, has led a fascinating life.

While the bar for boy birds is high, the bar for boy humans seems pretty low – as seen in a trend on TikTok where men are praised by women for doing … very little

Last summer, we travelled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, sea water and ice algae from large packs of floating ice called ice floes. These form 1–2 metre…