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  • A vivid red spiky flower on a tree, seen against a blue sky

    Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

    Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules
  • A tabby cat looks through a door of a house

    Cat burglars: scientists try to solve mystery of why felines ‘steal’ random objects

    Researchers unsure why animals turn up with items such as socks and gloves – but agree pilfered items are not presents
  • A small heath butterfly resting on a grass panicle

    Country diary
    Country diary: An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies

    Green Beach, Sefton coast, Merseyside: It was a glorious day in a biodiversity hotspot that’s full of different habitats – where were they all?
  • black bear sitting by a pole

    Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear

  • Elephant in Tanzania

    There is no justification for trophy hunting

  • Lots of midges on red tent fabric

    Midges thriving in wet Scottish summer – and experts say worse is to come

  • A small dog in a puffy pink jacket.

    Hot to trot: does your dog really need a jacket in the Australian winter?

  • The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

  • Country diary
    Country diary: There’s reason to love the unpopular cranefly

  • A pair of spoonbills and chicks in their nest

    Spoonbills return to Cambridgeshire for first time since 17th century

    Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England
  • Demi Moore at Cannes with her dog, Pilaf, who has also attended fashion week.

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    You’ve heard of nepo babies, but what about nepo dogs? The rise of the Very Important Pooch

    From hobnobbing with the Kardashians to brushing shoulders with the royals, celebrities’ dogs are having a busy summer. But what should they do if the high life gets too much?
  • A red-backed shrike

    Weatherwatch
    Varied spring weather in UK brought host of rare migratory birds

    Golden orioles and unprecedented number of red-backed shrikes among species spotted by birders
  • A Stegosaurus skeleton on display, with a man leaning in to photograph it

    Largest, most intact stegosaurus fossil ever found sells for $44.6m

  • OrangeRoughypixie

    Orange roughy are at risk from overfishing. But there is money to be made!

  • A small dark fox sits in sunlight on an outcrop covered in plants.

    The age of extinction
    Winning images of the 2024 BigPicture natural world photography competition

  • Photograph: Oneworld Picture/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run – podcast

  • California researchers set up webcam to collect data on rattlesnakes without disturbing them

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    Rattlesnake 'mega den' with as many as 2,000 snakes livestreaming from Colorado – video

  • Spade-toothed beaked whales have never been seen alive

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    The world’s rarest whale may have washed up on a New Zealand beach - video

  • An adult oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercus, resting on a begonia leaf.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A master of flight meets its match

  • A Russell's viper snake coiled on the grass

    Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

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