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Exposure to cocaine could severely impact shark health, potentially damaging their DNA, and impairing their ability to metabolise fats, findings reveal

There are concerns the stimulant could make sharks more erratic

Langstone, Havant: This curious behaviour is one I witnessed this week in my garden

Researchers found that the rumbles are initiated by the most socially integrated, and often the most dominant, males in close-knit social groups.

Giant panda reclining in cloudy hills eating bamboo, European bison picking their way through gloomy and lichen-draped forests and Cape mountain zebra roaming arid mountains. Ideas of how and where these species live are fixed in the public imagination, in conservation practice and even in some species’ names – but…

Port Stephens Council to boost funds from biobank credit sale.

Sparrows were taken into captivity after numbers dwindled – and this week experts released 1,000th bird back into wild

In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years

The Flow Country is to gain Unesco world heritage status years after the area was being destroyed in a tax break scheme, and thanks to campaigners, Nigel Lawson – and this newspaper

Decline blamed on washout summer driving down population of insects, butterflies and moths they feed on

A team of scientists looks to create an offspring from both corals since they have both thrived in similar extreme heat conditions