It has taken 110 years to cover 27 painstaking metres, but one of Britain’s most recently discovered species has finally found a home.
Papillifera papillaris - a type of Italian snail - arrived in England near the end of the 19th century, having hitched a ride on a stone balustrade imported from Rome. It [...]
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Smythson, the Queen’s stationer, has been criticised for selling luxury leather gifts using the skins of rare lizards.
The Bond Street stationer, which employs Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Conservative leader David Cameron, is reportedly selling at least a dozen products made from the [...]
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UK magazine NGamer has revealed the first details of an ultra secret project from Electronic Arts. Following the massive success of The Sims 2: Pets and the MySims titles, the company is set to bring Sim Animals to both the Nintendo DS and Wii systems sometime during 2009.
At the moment no screenshots can be revealed, [...]
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An animal charity says criminal gangs are becoming increasingly prepared to use violence to steal pets.
Dog Lost says there are cases of gangs threatening owners with knives and even guns to steal rare or expensive dogs.
Spokeswoman Jane Hayes said it took over 100 calls a week from owners that believe their [...]
Four weeks since the shocking incident that led to the death of 26 dolphins near Falmouth, research sheds new light on the extent of the problems facing Cornwall’s marine mammals.
A study by the University of Exeter and Cornwall Wildlife Trust, published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation (July 7, 2008) has revealed a disturbing rise [...]
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Beak wide open and clearly in distress, this bird appears to have hopelessly trapped itself in garden netting.
In fact the tiny kingfisher in this extraordinary photograph was captured by experts recording bird numbers and movements.
They used a fine-mesh ‘mist net’ to trap 26 more specimens including goldfinches, wrens, robins, starlings, goldcrests and reed [...]
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A British pub has taken kangaroo off its menu after pressure from a radical vegetarian group backed by Sir Paul McCartney.
The Pig and Fiddle in Bath stopped serving roo burgers after being lobbied by Vegetarians International Voice for Animals! (Viva!), which campaigned against the recent roo cull in Canberra.
Viva! has now set its sights [...]
Initial post-mortem examinations on some of the 26 dolphins found dead in southwestern England this week fail to explain why the animals swam ashore in Britain’s biggest mass stranding of marine animals for nearly 30 years, scientists said Thursday.
Scientists from the Zoological Society of London, which is leading the investigation into the deaths of [...]
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This picture of two rare butterflies getting amorous with one another has given fresh hope for the future of species that was once extinct in Britain.
Conservationists who are trying to re-populate the Large Blue butterfly in the wild are delighted with the sight which proves their programme is working.
The insect was wiped out completely in [...]
Three people have been infected with a form of MRSA usually found in pigs, the first time any humans in Britain have been infected by an animal strain of the superbug.
The variation has been found in farm animals and humans on the Continent, causing serious [...]
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