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Mammals

July 2024

  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    The age of extinction
    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

  • National Museums Scotland's Dr Elsa Panciroli with enlarged, 3D printed models of krusatodon kirtlingtonesis skeletons. Photo (c) Duncan Mc Glynn (1) fossil rodent thing

    Early mammal could help answer one of biology’s biggest question, say experts

  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    From the agencies
    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • A bat and a moth

    Where are all the bats? – alarm as numbers fall in England

  • Romania to step up cull of brown bears after hiker killed

  • The age of extinction
    First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

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

    Helen Sullivan

June 2024

  • Aerial photo of tiang, a species of antelope, in Boma and Badingilo national parks, South Sudan

    The age of extinction
    Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals

    The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability
  • Highway star … Kitty Johnson and hedgehog in her garden haven.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I was worried about empty-nest syndrome – so I began rescuing injured hedgehogs

    Kitty Johnson’s son was due to go to university and she knew she needed to keep herself occupied. So she started hunting for abandoned baby hedgehogs in compost bins, cemeteries and alleyways …
  • Wildcat kittens and cats playing

    Wildcat kittens born outside captivity in Cairngorms a ‘major milestone’

    Adult cats were released into national park last year after British population had come close to extinction

May 2024

  • An artist’s impression of Australia’s age of monotremes, with the ‘echidnapus’ at bottom right

    ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

    Discovery of ‘echidnapus’ and two more species show the furry egg-layers predated marsupials
  • A European bison in a snowy scene

    The age of extinction
    Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say

    Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing

    • Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    • Country diary
      Country diary 1924: the taste of the otter is catholic

    • The age of extinction
      Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

April 2024

  • Young mountain caribou: four are seen from behind, three with their antlers clearly visible, as they walk on light, dry grass on a mountainous landscape

    ‘If we don’t shoot wolves, we will lose caribou’: the dilemma of saving endangered deer

    Researchers in Canada studying interventions to stem decline of mountain caribou have found wolf culls most effective
  • A cloned black-footed ferret

    Two endangered black-footed ferrets cloned from frozen tissue samples

    Noreen and Antonia, born last May, are among first cloned offspring of a native endangered species in the North America
  • The remains of a fin whale skull on the beach by the harbour car park at Porlock Weir, Somerset.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A giant of the sea, reduced to a fragment

    Porlock Weir, Somerset: This fin whale died in the Bristol Channel back in October; its sutured skull is all that remains

March 2024

  • A wolf under trees in the snow

    The age of extinction
    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

    Experts say the hybrids risk ‘polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter
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