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Honk if your barn is burning: pet goose alerts sleeping Texas family to blaze | Texas
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (394+ words) Family ‘extremely grateful’ to four-month-old ‘Goosey’ who ran out of fire-billowing building and repeatedly squawked A pet goose is being credited with helping save a Texas family’s animals after sounding a honking alarm as a fire tore through their barn....
Invertebrate of the year 2026: vote for your favourite
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (179+ words) We’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose Read about this year’s contenders Readers have nominated thousands of amazing animals, we’ve chosen a shortlist of 10, and now you can vote for your…...
‘Like an alien invasion’: the neon flying squid that can fly in formation above the ocean
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (407+ words) Smart, sociable squid use funnel-like organ to force water to jet propel themselves along in and out of sea On a research vessel 15 years ago, a group of Japanese scientists documented something that had only previously been described by startled…...
Young volunteer attempts to keep stranded humpback whale alive on Queensland beach – video
16+ hour ago (232+ words) The Guardian Young volunteer attempts to keep stranded humpback whale alive on Queensland beach – video Chantelle Smith was with her daughter on Sunday morning on K'gari when they came across a stranded juvenile humpback whale. After she recorded this footage,…...
Male redback spiders invite cannibalism through a ‘self-sacrificial somersault’ during sex – but why?
15+ hour ago (556+ words) New research sheds light on the genetic basis of the venomous insect’s ‘weird mating behaviour’ If you think you’ve had a bad one-night stand, spare a thought for the male redback spider, whose sole reproductive partner eats him after sex. Male…...
‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (485+ words) Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum When wasps began streaming through a rusted gap in her office door one June morning, Eilish…...
‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (577+ words) Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety They pre-date dinosaurs, eat food using their legs and contain blue blood that we use to keep us healthy. Horseshoe crabs are the supreme,…...
Country diary: The thin, hungry fox goes for the sleeping hen | Nic Wilson
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (219+ words) Hitchin, Hertfordshire: A rare daytime attack on our chickens led to a standoff. But I could see this animal was suffering in the heatwave High-pitched shrieking shattered the mid-morning calm and I knew, immediately, that there was a killer on…...
Who’s winning New York City’s war on rats: rodents or trash bins?
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1090+ words) City on track to record fewest reported rat sightings since pandemic as Mamdani’s ‘containerization’ program brings bins to boroughs Is New York finally winning its war on rats? Or are New Yorkers’ vermin neighbors merely adapting to changing circumstances and,…...
Lion saved as cub from Ukraine war and brought to US battles rare fungal disease
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (721+ words) Four-year-old Taras, who now resides at a Minnesota sanctuary, was diagnosed with an often fatal infection A lion that escaped the war in Ukraine after being found as a four-month-old cub inside a duffel bag at Odesa railway station is…...