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The sight of hundreds of thousands of bats streaming from their roost at dusk is one of nature’s great spectacles. Swarms can be so dense they resemble rising smoke at a distance. But the aerial antics of the birds of prey that hunt them are just as astonishing.

Protesters dressed in suits, blindfolded and gagged with dead fish staged a stunt outside Holyrood.

Wild monkeys that live in large groups alongside human settlements are the disease “superspreaders” of the animal kingdom, according to a new study.

The frog had travelled 4,300 miles from its home in the Dominican Republic

The extraordinary scenes of killer whales hunting and eating great white sharks were captured on video by both helicopter and drone pilots off the coast of South Africa

Prevalence of plastic grass and rising levels of nitrates blamed for absence of many species in urban gardens

The country’s second-largest brackish water lake is a victim of decades-long neglect

The Minch, the Hebrides: One comes so close to our ferry I can see its eggshell-blue eye. But how many more should there be?

Surfer Bill Ballard claims that dolphins ushered him back to shore as he was being stalked by the predator