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Many of the ocean’s most charismatic animals spend their lives swimming, flying or gliding thousands of miles, from the coasts to the high seas. Arctic terns, humpback whales and sea turtles are examples. Scientists have spent many years documenting and studying these magnificent journeys.

Pallid swifts were spotted in several locations on the Northumberland Coast

Ulster Wildlife say the little Pallas's leaf warbler is native to Siberia, Mongolia and northeast China and flew 3,000 miles

Scientists have mapped what they believe is the world's biggest seagrass meadow in the Bahamas, capturing the underwater world from the view of tiger sharks.

Monfragüe, Spain: Some careful human intervention has created an intensely rich wildlife spot where vultures are the stars of the show

A whale researcher in British Columbia, Canada, last week experienced an extraordinary encounter with a rare and enormous sunfish that appeared outside his home.

Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice,…

The vast majority of animals on Earth are invertebrates (animals without backbones) – such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans.

The rusted barrels on the beach stand as a grim reminder of how penguins here once came close to being wiped out by humans for their oil. In the years since, they have returned — but now they could be facing a different man-made threat.

Cornwall was plagued by thousands and thousands of hoverflies earlier this year and now experts at the University of Exeter, Devon, say there could be more to come

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania