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  • Image of the nearly complete skeleton from fossils recovered in Namibia of a giant salamander-like creature

    Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia

  • Herring gulls circling a polystyrene container of chips, with one eating from the box

    Pass notes
    XL gullies: how birds ‘as big as turkeys’ took over Britain

  • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

  • Hippo with all four feet off ground running with a group of wildebeest in grassland

    Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

  • Blackbird numbers plummet in south of England amid potential spread of virus

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A family ritual, a familiar route

  • The entrance to Golden Gate Park's botanical garden.

    Three coyotes killed in San Francisco park after five-year-old girl bitten

    Officials shot the animals after a coyote bit the girl, who was attending a supervised summer camp in Golden Gate Park
  • A koala and her joey

    A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds

    Federal review sparks fresh warnings that biodiversity scheme is increasing risk of animals going extinct
    • Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows

    • ‘Not just for fuddy-duddies’: interest in moths booming as species struggle

    • ‘Like the devil on meth’: New Zealand feral cat killing competition produces record haul

  • Three military horses bolt through London again after three break loose during a routine exercise

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    Military horse runs into a car in London after three break loose again – video

  • Helen Sullivan

    The nature of ...
    A rat: ‘We can no longer live as rats: we know too much’

    Helen Sullivan
  • Grainy dashcam footage of two horses trotting past an RAC van waiting at traffic lights in central London

    Military horses bolt through London again after three break loose

  • Elle Hunt

    Scientists ignored ‘gay’ animals for years. When will we get over our human hang-ups about the natural world?

    Elle Hunt
  • white buffalo calf in between large brown adult buffaloes

    Rare white buffalo sacred to Lakota not seen in Yellowstone since birth

    Park staff say they have not been able to locate calf, who fulfilled Lakota prophecy and is named Wakan Gli
  • Three people on a bright orange motorboat move across water toward fins.

    More than 100 dolphins stranded in shallow water around Cape Cod

  • A great white shark, among a few much smaller sharks, swim in bright blue water.

    Florida shark attack leaves man in critical condition

  • Offices and employees with their pets inside the Mars Petcare HQ, a woman hugs a dog, and kibble production at a factory.

    Love of animals and love of profit? Inside the $500bn pet boom

  • The two gilts arriving at Jamie's Farm.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The company of animals can be a powerful thing

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