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  • A closeup of the face of a red fox in a meadow.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: the fox I invited into my home – but never quite trusted

  • Two elephants with tusks walk in a dusty landscape at sunset

    The age of extinction
    Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

    Despite curbs on certain species, trade in the cheap fish is booming. But worried conservationists say most people do not even realise they are eating shark
  • Mike Hohnen with his cat Bootsy and neighbour Enid Morrison in Rozelle in Sydney’s inner west

    ‘The cat has changed my life’: how Bootsy turned a street of strangers into a community

    When Mike Hohnen moved into a new suburb he was looking for solitude. His tabby had other ideas
  • The incident disrupted Fourth of July at South Padre Island, as two were taken to the hospital

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    Shark bites two swimmers near Texas beach – video

  • king charles and queen camilla cuddle koalas

    Hands off the koala: why cuddling Australia’s iconic marsupial could soon be a thing of the past

  • US Border Patrol agents help a person who was bitten by a shark on South Padre Island, Texas, on 4 July 2024.

    Solo shark bites two and makes contact with two others at Texas beach

  • Two horses run down a London street, with a white one covered in blood

    Stress may be to blame for military horses bolting through London, says expert

  • Rewilding plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London

  • The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • Puppy Pip in Putney

    Polling place pooches: dogs on UK election day – in pictures

    Guardian readers have been sharing their pictures of dogs at polling stations. Here are some of them
  • Adrian Chiles

    I am all for a bit of feeble-minded fun. But why won’t my dog grow up?

    Adrian Chiles
    When he was a puppy, it was sweet and funny to hear him growl every time I held a broom. Four years later, I’m no longer laughing, writes Adrian Chiles
    • The age of extinction
      ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors – in pictures

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

    • NSW greyhound racing board could be sacked after minister issues ‘show cause’ notice

  • 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

    About 2.5 metres long, creature was an apex predator 280m years ago, before age of dinosaurs, say scientists
  • 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

    From Aberdeen to St Ives, it seems nowhere is safe from supersized swooping scavengers. But you must not fight back
    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

    • Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

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

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