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Charity awards funds to rewilding schemes with focus on community and wellbeing

A series of rewilding projects which are engaging local communities or working to improve health and wellbeing have been awarded up to £15,000 each. The seven nature restoration schemes across Britain have each received funding from charity ...

21 Dec 2022 at 00:01

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Longford performers pulling out the stops for 'One Night Only'

Next week St Mel’s Musical Society host a fundraising extravaganza “One Night Only”, an all singing, all dancing night of entertainment. Featuring pre-senior and senior students of Evolution Stage School and members of St Mel’s Musical ...

25 Feb 2023 at 07:33

Earliest reptiles and birds may have given birth to live young, study suggests

The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have given birth to live young rather than laying eggs, new research suggests. Until now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the success of the amniotes – a group of ...

12 Jun 2023 at 16:37

Origins of virus responsible for Covid-19 traced to horseshoe bats

The origins of the virus responsible for Covid-19 have been “unambiguously” traced to horseshoe bats, according to a new study. However, scientists said that “dramatically more wildlife sampling” is needed to pinpoint the ...

09 Feb 2022 at 16:25

Robots could help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

Robots could help shed light on how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago. The approach could provide a valuable experimental method to studying how the ...

23 Oct 2024 at 19:00

Family ties give animals reasons to help or harm as they age, research suggests

The structure of family groups gives animals an incentive to help or harm their social group as they age, research shows. Researchers looked at how relatedness – the strength of genetic links – changes over a lifetime ...

26 Sept 2022 at 17:00

Bees increasingly stressed by climate change over the past 100 years – study

Bees have become increasingly stressed by climate change over the past 100 years, museum collections indicate. An analysis of bumblebee wings from a network of UK institutions shows signs of stress linked to ...

18 Aug 2022 at 06:01

Woolly mammoths ‘evolved smaller ears and fluffier coats over 700,000 years’

Woolly mammoths evolved smaller ears and fluffier coats over the 700,000 years they roamed the Siberian steppes, according to a new study. Researchers compared the genomes of the giant creatures with modern ...

07 Apr 2023 at 16:00

Starfish bodies may more closely resemble a head, study suggests

The entire body of a starfish may actually more closely resemble a head, scientists suggest. The new research helps to answer the mystery of how these creatures evolved their distinctive star-shaped body, ...

01 Nov 2023 at 16:00

Same-sex sexual behaviour is widespread in macaque monkeys, study suggests

Bisexual behaviour among male monkeys is widespread and may be beneficial to them, new research suggests. Observations of a wild colony of macaques over three years suggests same-sex sexual (SSB), or ...

10 Jul 2023 at 16:06

Orangutan vocabularies ‘shaped by social mingling, like in humans’

The vocabularies of orangutans may be shaped by their social groups – just like in humans, according to a new study. Researchers found the wild animals have distinct vocal personalities that are ...

21 Mar 2022 at 18:25

Study finally proves birds are more colourful near the Equator

Birds that live near the equator are more colourful than those closer to the poles, a new study suggests. The findings prove a long-held theory that was first suspected by Charles Darwin and ...

04 Apr 2022 at 17:25

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