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EU Legislation Takes Aim at Nature Conservation in the Face of the Climate Crisis

14 June 2023

Bowhead whales rock- all winter long.

04 April 2018

Untamed Travel Possibilities for your imagination or your future plans.

26 September 2017

Sneeze to leave, and wild dogs vote for a hunt!

06 September 2017

Sheep hunted before domestication in the Middle East.

23 August 2017

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Naked, unafraid mole rats and longevity

featured Naked, unafraid mole rats and longevity

The mole rat has always caught our imagination. This artificial tunnel suits this individual very well: where’s the queen today? Naked mole rat image; Credit: © Shutterstock The naked mole...

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Waterbirds respond to global warming.

Waterbirds respond to global warming.

What a lovely name for a creature! The smew may not be familiar, but using its data to second-guess the likely needs of waterfowl in the whole of Europe could...

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Life on Europe

Life on Europe

When they made the Cretaceous fauna, they created lands of monsters and tiny birds, mammals and newts, a complete set of ecosystems that manage to feed our imaginations with fodder...

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Fanged frogs and live-bearing feats.

Fanged frogs and live-bearing feats.

The tadpoles that emerged from a pregnant female and the frog itself are shown here, but it is difficult to work out how long the tadpoles remain in the mother...

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Whale evolution resolved, but only slightly.

Whale evolution resolved, but only slightly.

We have no pygmy right whale for you, but this marvellous breach by a Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, is cause for a celebration that we now have more whales...

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Gibbon-speak is real language.

Gibbon-speak is real language.

Hylobates lar is the lar or white-handed gibbon, here bored stiff in a zoo. At least Wisconsin Zoo served as a portal into the life and language of the wild...

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Shark self-conservation

Shark self-conservation

This is the living pup of the brown-banded bamboo shark. Produced after its mother maintained spermatozoa for 4 years, this individual proves that shark conservation has additional help for much-needed...

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Support your local orcas.

Support your local orcas.

A precious baby can just be seen leaping to the left between 2 adults in this older photograph of a Southern pod of orcas from the Puget Sound Orca pod...

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Mongoose inbreeding maintains social system?

Mongoose inbreeding maintains social system?

The human efforts at incest are thankfully rare nowadays, but at least 3 social species mange to produce viable populations with very close inbreeding systems. It is the rarity of...

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Humans are lightweights

Humans are lightweights

The diagram shows, gibbon, gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-utan and human, to directly compare how all have adapted to heavy skeletal form, apart from the human and the gibbon. Skeletons image; Credit:...

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