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Fish once as large as grizzly bears have become far smaller in recent years due to overfishing, dams and climate crisis

Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef

Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem, writes entomologist Gwen Pearson

Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered arms of a yellow sea lily sway in the current and a turtle grazes on algae growing along the reef. These flickers of life…

Researchers say distinct frequency is ‘great news’ as it will allow their nests to be located with greater ease

Sightings confirmed in County Durham and Suffolk as southern small white flutters in from European mainland

Wildlife experts warn huge facility on the Valdés peninsula in Patagonia could be devastating for ‘a treasure chest of wildlife’