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  • Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly in close-up feeding from purple flowers, filmed on Super 8. Still from film Super Nature.

    Super Nature review – crowd-sourced Super 8 film is a triumphant collage of hope for the natural world

  • An algae-covered chicken liver sponge

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Could this humble sea sponge clean up the world’s ports?

  • A large papery wasp nest with swirling patterns set against the edge of wooden shed wall

    Country diary
    Country diary: The wasps’ nest in our shed is a work of art, a family saga

  • A beluga whale.ngs0_1148

    Science Weekly
    Clicks, grunts and squeals: the wonders of whale communication – podcast

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  • Ninety kākāpō chicks were officially added to the population of the critically endangered birds on 1 September, a record high

    Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

  • A rosy footman moth with orange wings rests on a lichen-covered branch

    Thriving lichen-loving moth is an exception to the rule

  • Leah Stewart with her daughter. She was attacked by a shark at Sydney's Coogee beach in June.

    ‘It was like fighting a dinosaur’: Sydney shark attack survivor recalls left hook that helped save her life

  • Gannets with yellow heads perch and preen on the rocky cliffs of Bass Rock

    Country diary
    Country diary: For the gannets of Bass Rock, it’s a slow road to recovery

  • an alligator on grass

    Louisiana gears up for first recreational alligator hunt in more than 50 years

  • A grey wolf stands on rocky terrain, watching a raven perched nearby in Yellowstone

    Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species

  • A common dolphin leaps through splashing water, its gray back and white belly visible

    Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’

  • Extreme close-up of an alligator's eye and textured scaly skin, with a vertical slit pupil

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife: a Cornish wallaby, a frazzled opossum and rare Montagu’s harrier chicks

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  • Experience
    Experience: I brought a bear back to life

  • ‘Nature thrives when given a chance’: restored Cheshire wetland now a haven for rare grebe

  • Four sperm whales swimming around close to each other

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves

    From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture
  • A hornet mimic hoverfly on a thistle flower in the afternoon sunshine.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A stonking great harmful hornet? Ah it’s only a fly

    The Marches, Shropshire: For this hoverfly, pretending to be far more dangerous than it actually is has been a useful evolutionary technique
  • A black bear

    The age of extinction
    Japan killed 14,000 bears after a rise in deadly attacks on people – but is a cull the answer?

    Bears killed 13 people in Japan last year, as a lack of forest foods increased human-wildlife conflict. But the controversial cull in response has raised concerns with conservationists
  • A male blackbird flies with wings fully spread, talons visible below

    Birds have an eerie association with death

    Letter: Responding to an article in which birds comforted Helen Harris during bereavement, Angela Smith describes her own experience
  • A featherless pink parrot chick sits on a cloth, with an egg visible behind it

    South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

    Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking
  • A marmot stands upright amid green leafy plants in a field

    Call to ban marmot hunting in France as campaigners say they are ‘killed for fun’

    Protests and petitions planned amid growing concerns over impact of climate crisis on numbers of Alpine rodent
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