The best of the week’s wildlife pictures from around the world including sparring elk, dove v chipmunk and a playful elephant
The week in wildlife – in pictures
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Seafood fraud: why your Mediterranean swordfish might actually be shark
Franco Comes last caught sharks more than six months ago, while longline fishing for swordfish in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Monopoli,...
Country diary: sleeping spoonbills refuse to be disturbed
Clouds rise above the line of tall trees and stretch out to sea. Below my feet, a muddy channel of water runs from a...
Severe climate-driven loss of native molluscs reported off Israel’s coast
Mediterranean study finds subtidal populations of cockles, whelks and other species have collapsed by 90%The world’s most devastating climate-driven loss of ocean life has...
‘Really amazing’: scientists show that fish migrate through the deep oceans
New research has finally demonstrated what many marine biologists suspected but had never before seen: fish migrating through the deep sea.
The study, published this...
Many of the 300 plants and animals endemic to Canada at risk, report finds
There are few animals more iconically Canadian than the moose and the beaver, and few plants more closely associated with the country than the...