Wildlife
- Other livesDavid Chivers obituary
It would be a shame to lose the bog star
- Other livesMarion Nixon obituary
Confused dogs and courting crickets: how does daylight saving time affect animals?
‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea
Culture of care: surreal celebrations of Iranian tenderness – in pictures
- The week in wildlifeWeek in wildlife: a meep-meep roadrunner, a new frog species and Orkney voles
Sex at arm’s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find
Why collars are cool for cats and wildlife
- Save our species‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it
The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned?
Healthy hedgehogs are best left in the wild
Unsuspecting windsurfer collides with gray whale in San Francisco Bay
- The age of extinction‘Guano is far more than just droppings’: scientists uncover the secrets of bat poo in Gorongosa park
- Young country diaryNature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian
- SpecieswatchPainting eyes on takeaway boxes can stop gulls stealing chips, study shows
‘Harrowing’: Cyclone Narelle leaves graveyard of turtles, dolphins and seabirds in Western Australia
The language of termites: Liss Fenwick’s The Colony – in pictures
Liss Fenwick’s photobook The Colony, available through Perimeter Editions, is a book about books – and what happens when their authority is quietly and actively undone‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Critics say exemption for fossil fuels exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whaleUK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds
Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’