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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victor Watts/Shutterstock (173165p) Gerald Durrell with Lemurs Various Portraits - 1990

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Memoir offers new insights into the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell

In the centenary of naturalist Gerald Durrell’s birth, a new memoir adds rich new layers to what we know about the man

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Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum Credit: Sutton et al. Nature (2025)

Life

Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

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Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes fosteri) colony with chicks, age 9-12 weeks, Antarctica. Bookplate.

Environment

We thought we knew emperor penguins – robots are proving us wrong

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Life

Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes its sting so painful

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Life

Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater

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Life

Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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Ants perform amputations on each other

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2024 review: The strangest animal videos of the year

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Life

Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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Evident Image of the Year global winner: Cross-section of a Cosmic Orange aster flower with pollen grains maturing inside anthers. Captured by Igor Siwanowicz of the United States. Igor Siwanowicz of the United States was selected as the global winner for his striking cross- section image of a Cosmic Orange Mexican aster flower that vividly depicts pollen grains maturing inside anthers. To create this image, Siwanowicz embedded isolated florets in agarose, sectioned on a vibratome and stained with Calcofluor White and Congo Red dyes. The sample was dehydrated, cleared and mounted in methyl salicylate. Siwanowicz chose to image this flower to observe how aster florets are organized before the flower opens. ?I was lucky to pick my flower buds at the right stage of development, with the pollen grains almost fully mature but still bound together in a mass,? Siwanowicz explained. ?I think this image shows the true beauty of a common flower that most of us take for granted by extending it well beyond what we can see with the naked eye. The beauty of natural form and design is present on very different scales, sometimes almost in a fractal manner?as we continue to zoom in, the form may lose familiarity but also become a new emotional experience.?

Life

See the world in close-up in these intricate images of nature

For a truly exquisite glimpse of plants and animals, check out some of the top entries and the winner of the 2024 Evident Image of the Year contest

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Environment

The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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Life

Pigeons are misunderstood: These little-known facts will prove why

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Life

The amazing talents of pigeons – and why we should learn to love them

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Life

Dogs pull harder on the leash when they wear a harness than a collar

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