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Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction

Below the surface of the oceans, microscopic algae known as phytoplankton are growing as the world warms. That’s one finding of our new study, published in Nature Climate Change, which provides the first long-term account, over more than three decades, of phytoplankton that live beyond the sight of ocean-monitoring satellites.

Another chapter in one of the greatest comeback stories in the world of endangered species is being written with the release of three young California condors north of the Grand Canyon

Sea robins' legs, sensory organs with taste receptors, aid in uncovering buried prey and showcase evolutionary innovation.‌  

Oarfish live at great depths, are mostly seen washed ashore, and are a sign of impending doom, as legend has it, but rarely look like this.

Portsmouth-based patrol vessel HMS Medway transported the loggerhead turtlesto the Azores

Sefton, Southport: As the days shorten, thousands of honking pink-footed geese arrive in England’s north-west from Greenland, Iceland and Norway

New insight into their movements observed them doing headstands and using bubble blasts to catch food. 

Record floods propel aggressive Mozambique tilapia throughout Mary River, compromising efforts to save ancient fish and endangered turtles