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A group of 10 orcas has been seen leaping into the air to catch prey, delighting watchers and experts for the past two weeks

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction

There are now dozens of nature schools across New Zealand where children learn about foraging, planting trees and trapping pests

A court in New Caledonia on Thursday ordered the authorities to stop hunting sharks, saying multiple culls were a "disproportionate" response to any danger to swimmers.

Hawaii hardest hit by loss of eight birds, with an Ohio catfish, a Pacific fruit bat and eight freshwater mussels also disappearing

Jellyfish, like other cnidarians like corals and sea anemones, can regenerate rapidly, but how they develop the essential blastema has been a mystery until now. Read further on Dynamite News:

As the new year arrived in 2016, my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne was briefly the centre of global attention – for a puddle. The Drummond Puddle, as it was grandly known, was a watery hazard placed perfectly where converging footpaths funnelled a daily stream of victims to their…

Palestine’s natural splendour offered a landscape ripe for scientific “discovery”, description and expropriation by European imperial powers in the 19th century. And in the 1860s an English vicar named Henry Baker Tristram claimed its birds.

Conservationists say government strategy to recover Britain’s degraded temperate rainforest is a good start but want a target to double the area by 2050

Conservationists celebrated findings but warned that species and habitats are in overall decline in Britain

Finding the elusive species in far north Queensland is a unique challenge for birders. But the search demands extraordinary enthusiasm