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An owl at the Central Park Zoo flew the coop after someone vandalized its exhibit by cutting through stainless steel mesh

O.H. Ivie Lake in Texas this week yielded two largemouth bass topping 13 pounds – rare catches that are eligible for a selective breeding program designed to enhance state fisheries

Long-spined sea urchins — the "single biggest threat" for reefs in eastern Tasmania — are arriving via an ocean current supercharged by climate change. So what can be done about it?

As the economist Herman Daly pithily said, the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment – not the reverse. Nature makes our lives possible through what scientists call ecosystem services. Think healthy food, clean water, feed for livestock, building materials, medicine, flood and storm control, recreation, and attractions…

Letter: Dodo historian Anthony Cheke responds to scientists’ plans to bring the creature back to life, and wonders whether it is possible to create a safe habitat in which the birds could thrive

Large great white sharks are gathering off the South Carolina coast — for reasons scientists don’t quite understand.

Nine otters and foxes have been confirmed with avian flu since 2021, with the first case a fox in Durham

“Wild animals have replaced the role of landlords, who were previously the main source of conflict for farmers,” says Thomas K D, a 69-year-old cashew farmer whose crop yield has shrunk to two quintals from the seven before. Sitting at his cashew plantation with banners protesting against official apathy, he…

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris