A record number of cranes bred in the UK last year as the once-vanished bird continues its comeback. Cranes became extinct ...

Ant and Dec assemble iconic ex-campmates to battle it out in brutal trials under the scorching African sun. In the show where ...

An increase in the number of volunteers taking part in the long-standing Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in the UK, has resulted ...

With its spectacular 100-mile coastline, there’s no better way to discover this island than on a high-speed RIB ride ...

Introduced to the island to control the rat population there, the alien ferrets became more rat-like than the rats and took ...

East Yorkshire, it is a coastline known for puffins and towering cliffs but hidden in its history was a battle that reshaped ...

A total £90 million funding for species recovery across England Hundreds of England's most threatened native wildlife are to be protected from ...

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A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be ...

Independent’s longstanding Environment Editor, now its Environment Columnist, is one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment and the natural world. He has won a string of awards for his work, ...