Animals

The minuscule snails were believed to have been lost forever.

Snails the size of a pinhead brought back from brink of extinction

Pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world because of their scales

These are all the animals criminals tried to smuggle in just one month

Share a pet and plant a tree claims an Instagram trend - but the truth is a lot murkier.

Instagram's pet-sharing-tree-planting trend is definitely a scam

Are caterpillars making climate change worse?

Caterpillars are secretly making climate change worse, study says

Dutch livestock farmers woo locals amid fears for their future

Dutch livestock farmers fear for their future

Hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who decades ago imported three female hippos and one male.

Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos legally recognised as people

Festival goers arrive for the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, England.

The surprising reason you shouldn’t do drugs at Glastonbury Festival

The ancient asexual scandal O. nova.

This animal has survived for centuries without having sex

23/09/2021

The morelet's tree frog as it appears under ultraviolet light.

These ordinary animals secretly glow in the dark

17/09/2021

Australian parrots have seen their bills increase in size by up to 10 per cent.

Birds are developing larger beaks to cope with climate change

15/09/2021

Fragments of hippo remains have been found by archaelogists excavating the Arabian desert

Do hippo bones prove the Arabian desert was once covered in water?

08/09/2021

Sheep form the shape of a heart in a field in Guyra, northern New South Wales, Australia.

Why are hundreds of sheep forming the shape of a heart in a field?

01/09/2021

London Zoo held its annual “weigh-in” of its animals on August 26.

London Zoo's animals step onto the scales for annual check-up

01/09/2021

Lake Titicaca frogs have saggy skin that helps them to absorb oxygen.

These endangered ‘scrotum’ frogs breathe through their saggy skin

27/08/2021

One of the three mules collecting garbage in the historic town of Artena.

Going the extra mule: Animals help Italians collect their rubbish

13/08/2021

Local Hungarian activists brought camels to a climate protest in Budapest on August 11, 2021.

Hungarian activists bring camels to climate protest in Budapest

12/08/2021

These elusive creatures are making a comeback in Europe but their future is still uncertain.

This 24-hour wildlife watch is funding a hospital for Europe’s otters

07/08/2021

11-years-old Bryndis Jonsdottir, Erla Fridriksdottir’s niece, cuddles an eider duckling on the Bjarneyjar island in Breidafjordur Bay, Iceland.

Are eiderdown feathers the best form of feather recycling?

01/08/2021

The Iberian Lynx makes a comeback in Spain after near extinction

The Iberian Lynx makes a comeback in Spain after near extinction

28/07/2021

A protester tries to push away a police horse in Sydney during anti-lockdown protests, July 2021

Why were two anti-lockdown protesters charged with animal cruelty?

27/07/2021

The tiny birds jumped from heights of up to 60 feet to escape Oregon's heatwave

Why dozens of baby birds jumped to their deaths in US heatwave

22/07/2021

Fukushima nuclear disaster / Snakes are helping scientists sniff out radioactivity

Snakes are helping scientists monitor radiation from Fukushima

22/07/2021

Beavers are making homes for themselves in the UK for the first time in over 400 years

How were these seven animals successfully reintroduced to the wild?

21/07/2021

Endangered Baird’s Tapir Born at Audubon Zoo

Meet the endangered baby tapir on an important mission

20/07/2021

The tiny ocean animals could filter and repackage 25 per cent of the ocean's microplastics

Mussels can eat microplastics for breakfast, lab experiment finds

20/07/2021

According to these researchers, spider silk could hold the secret to solving plastic pollution

New plant-based spider silk could replace single-use plastics

28/06/2021

Animal welfare leglisation will make up some of the 30 new laws announced by Her Majesty

The Queen confirms new measures for animal protection in the UK

11/05/2021

How sustainable farms in Italy are improving animal welfare and our food systems

How sustainable farms in Italy are improving animal welfare

27/04/2021

Lambs in a field

EU’s farmed animal welfare rules need ‘serious and extensive review’

27/04/2021

The shingleback lizard is one of Australia's most trafficked animals.

Electronic 'noses' are being used to sniff out wildlife traffickers

25/03/2021