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Updated | 2025-07-03 01:30 |
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Big Boy, a funnel-web spider with a leg span of 10cm, is the largest specimen ever handed in to Australia's only venom-milking programme.
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Victoria Gill joins a team of scientists as they set up remote cameras to observe penguin colonies in the Antarctic.
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A team of researchers led by Dr Tom Hart at Oxford University has set up a network of penguin-monitoring cameras throughout the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The widow of North Face co-founder Douglas Tompkins opens talks with Chile on donating a vast nature reserve to be turned into national parks.
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US entrepreneur Jeff Bezos reflies the New Shepard rocket and capsule system he launched and recovered last November.
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A BBC News crew is in Antarctica following a team of British researchers who are monitoring penguins.
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Storks feeding on rubbish dumps instead of migrating are more likely to survive the winter, research shows.
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As red kites prepare to mate and breed, volunteers in County Down are out identifying potential nest sites so they can check for chicks later in the season.
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Scientists say the Venus flytrap controls its digestion process by gauging the number of times a struggling insect touches its trigger hairs.
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A Jurassic sea beast found in a Cambridgeshire quarry could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, scientists say.
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Scientists say satellite tagging basking sharks off Scotland has given valuable insights into their behaviour of the world's second biggest fish.
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Images from a microscope of healthy and infected algae inspires the designs of a Scottish-based textiles producer.
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Karen Allen meets a rhino breeder with a controversial solution to stop poachers killing his animals for their horns.
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Details are emerging of plans to pay farmers who manage their land in a way that helps prevent flooding in towns and cities.
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British-born astronaut Piers Sellers tells of living life at "20 times normal speed" after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Sir David Attenborough speaks to Huw Edwards about the discovery of a new species of titanosaur, which is the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.
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US astronomers claim to have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System. We asked you to send us your suggested names for this new arrival.
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Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of warfare between hunter-gatherers, at a site in northern Kenya.
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Why do astronomers in the US think there they have discovered a ninth planet in the solar system?
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The discovery of what may be the world's biggest dinosaur is told in a new BBC One documentary.
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Three baby otters have been found outside a Florida home in Palm Shores.
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A sperm whale stranded on a beach in Western Japan is dragged back out to sea by fishermen.
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Scientists studying birds in the Himalayas discover that one species of thrush is in fact two.
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Exposure to toxin from algae linked to dementia
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Nasa's chief scientist says she is a bit "sceptical" about the existence of a ninth planet in our Solar System.
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Global temperatures in 2015 were the warmest on record, according to data published by meteorologists in the UK and US.
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A 201-million-year-old dinosaur that fell out of a cliff face in Wales in 2014 is formally named Dracoraptor hanigani - the "dragon thief".
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American astronomers say they have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System orbiting far beyond even the dwarf world Pluto.
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Five planets will align across the dawn sky on Wednesday in a rare treat for skywatchers.
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Global temperatures in 2015 were the warmest since records began, according to data published by meteorologists in the UK and the US.
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Images from an unmanned aerial vehicle suggest excessive management of floodplains limit their ability to hold water and slow the flow of floodwater.
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Residents of one of Germany's foremost car manufacturing bases are urged to leave their vehicles at home after smog breaches maximum safe levels.
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The present-day English owe about a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, according to two new studies.
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The amount of fish taken from the world's oceans has been underestimated by more than 50% according to a new study.
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A company producing GM mosquitoes says it is to open a new factory in Brazil as it expands its operations.
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A private UK fertility clinic is offering couples a new form of IVF treatment that allows conception to occur in the womb rather than in the lab.
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This is the moment an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket exploded on landing after successfully delivering an ocean monitoring satellite to orbit.
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Jason-3, a US-European satellite that is fundamental to our understanding of the oceans, is launched from California.
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The UK government extends the "blue belt" of protected marine areas around the British coastline.
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Nasa has ended the spacewalk involving British astronaut Tim Peake after his US colleague reported water in his helmet.
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The European Space Agency is eager to develop its interest in a robot mini-shuttle just selected by Nasa to help ferry cargo to the space station.
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Tim Peake is carrying out the first ever spacewalk by an astronaut representing the UK.
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