Wildlife
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Premature baby hippo saved by children’s hospital staff – video reportFiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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A world safe for robots and mammothsLetters: Woolly mammoths | Transport investment | Baby boomers | Flat cakes | Weetabix |
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100 years ago: Thaw livens up the hedge-frequentersOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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In search of Tanzania's bee-eatersBirdwatch In the Selous Game Reserve you can see seven different bee-eaters. Each one sports impossibly beautiful colours
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An 'Arctic' safari in the Scottish HighlandsWinter in the Cairngorms national park can turn positively Arctic – perfect for Kari Herbert to give her small daughter a taste of the polar conditions, and creatures, she enjoyed as a child in Greenland
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Winged surprise lifts spirits on a cold morningCountry diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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The week in wildlife – in picturesSea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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GM 'surrogate hens' could lay eggs of rare chicken breeds, scientists sayRadical plan to maintain diversity of gene pool proposes use of genetically modified chickens as surrogate mothers
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At a time of urban growth, nature is feared, subjugated and concreted over. But now, more than ever, we need the chaos of wildnessPity the imperilled butterfly, fluttering out of toxic lives. Pity us, too
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Wildlife ranger killed in Zambia leaves behind seven childrenRodrick Ngulube was shot by poachers in West Petauke game management area, after rangers discovered carcasses of a warthog and zebra
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Tiny plastic pellets found on 73% of UK beachesGreat Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country
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Mary Welsh obituaryOther lives: Naturalist whose books inspired thousands to explore northern England and Scotland
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Underwater photographer of the year 2017 winners – in picturesFrench photographer Gabriel Barathieu has been named this year’s winner for his ‘balletic, malevolent’ dancing octopus, while British winner Nick Blake captured a lone diver among the otherworldly sunbeams of a Mexican cave
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Birds of prey lock in combatCountry diary: South Downs, West Sussex The buzzard raises its wings and lifts its talons up towards the kite, which responds and the two clash
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'Extraordinary' levels of pollutants found in 10km deep Mariana trenchPresence of manmade chemicals in most remote place on planet shows nowhere is safe from human impact, say scientists
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Canada reintroduces bison to Banff national park after more than a centuryHelicopters transport 16 of the large mammals to site in Alberta as scheme restores once-dominant grazers to ecosystem
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Act now before entire species are lost to global warming, say scientistsClimate change is threatening about 700 endangered species and policymakers must act urgently to lessen impact
Country diary Talons at noon as red kite pair topple the spare