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All the latest news and articles about all creatures great and small, from both the UK and the rest of the natural world.

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Blue Whale and Calf

The heartbreaking and worrying reason blue whales are going silent

World August 11, 2025 By Josh Milton

A male satyrex ferox pictured in Oman.

Tarantulas with giant penises discovered and we're scared stiff

World August 7, 2025 By Katie Boyden

An image from Asher Watkins' social media show him posing with 'trophies'

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari

World August 6, 2025 By Brooke Davies

A male Asiatic lion with head on a log

Zoo asks people to donate unwanted animals to feed to predators

World August 7, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

A sedated rhino is being prepared before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, South Africa, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Rhinos now have radioactive horns to fight off poachers

World August 2, 2025 By Ryan Prosser

In this photo provided by Helen North, Leo the laundry-stealing cat poses on July 24, 2024, at its home in Auckland, New Zealand. (Helen North via AP)

Cat named Leonardo da Pinchy terrorises town by stealing people's underwear

World August 1, 2025 By Jasper King

"Duck Wardens" help lead a group of ducks to their nesting spot.

You could have the cutest job in the world and become a duck-crossing warden

UK August 1, 2025 By Jasper King

Contraceptive methods to control the zoo's Guinea baboon population had failed, the zoo said German zoo kills 12 baboons because there wasn't enough space Picture: AP

Zoo kills 12 baboons because there wasn't enough space

World July 31, 2025 By Luke Alsford

Radioactive wasp nest is found at former nuclear bomb site

US August 1, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Former Barcelona midfielder in hospital after dog bit his genitals

Football July 30, 2025 By Chris Davie

Donkeys ransack village,

Army of donkeys ransack new village wheelie bins and destroy the place

UK July 30, 2025 By Jasper King

A Greater Anglia intercity train riding along a track.

The unexpected UK train journey where you can see polar bears

Travel August 13, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

Boy, 2, killed cobra by biting its head after it coiled around him

World July 29, 2025 By Katie Boyden

Snake found.

Woman caught at customs with four snakes stuffed down her bra

World July 28, 2025 By Jasper King

Yvonne Ford, right, with daughter Robyn

My mum died after getting rabies - here's what you need to know about it

UK July 28, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Portrait of a female cougar among fir branches

Child, 4, bitten by mountain lion while hiking with family at popular national park

US July 23, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Small dog eating from a bowl

I couldn't even stroke my rescue dog her skin was so bad – then we fed her this

Shopping August 18, 2025 By Georgia Lockstone

Left: ladybird on a leaf Right: Swarm of ladybirds on a bollard

Here's why there are so many ladybirds in the UK right now

Tech July 14, 2025 By Jen Mills

Arizona Flagstaff Medical Center

First bubonic plague death confirmed in the US since 2007

US July 11, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Close up and top view of Xenesthis immanis spider.

Warning as two huge venomous tarantulas go missing in post

UK July 10, 2025 By Jasper King