Eugene musician Annah Anti-Palindrome — who describes herself as “anti-Zionist Mizrahi Jew” —  feels it’s crucial to take a stand against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, “and the ongoing genocide…

Charvet Drucker captures dramatic video and photos of seal being hunted by orcas in Salish Sea, north-west of Seattle A wildlife photographer on a whale-watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering on to the stern of her boat. Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20ft (6 metre) boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles north-west of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas. Continue reading...

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

US Congress is debating permanent daylight saving – but new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is least stressful on the body

New Zealand’s annual bird election has crowned the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, as Bird of the Year.

More habitat has been given up legally in 2025 so far than any other year since the animals were listed as threatened, analysis shows * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More clearing of koala habitat has been approved under Australia’s nature laws in 2025 so far than in any other year since the marsupial was listed as a threatened species, according to an analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation. The destruction of 3,958 ha of bush approved across eight projects, including a coal mine in Queensland, equates to about four Sydney airports’ worth of clearing. Continue reading...

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.

Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail’s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs – a barrier to mating If you thought your dating pool was limited, spare a thought for Ned, a very rare snail unearthed in New Zealand. Due to a left-spiralling shell, Ned has a vanishingly small chance of finding a mate – a predicament that has sparked a nationwide campaign. Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned’s left-spiralling shell is like a mirror image, resulting in a flipped shell and reversed reproductive organs – a configuration that affects roughly 1 in 40,000 snails. Continue reading...

Analysis finds that over millions of years, and without the help of fins or wings, brittle stars have quietly migrated across entire oceans * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A global study of deep sea creatures called brittle stars has linked ecosystems on a “superhighway” reaching from southern Australia to the north Atlantic, uncovering close evolutionary ties across oceans. Researchers analysed DNA from 2,699 brittle star specimens collected from all of the Earth’s oceans – from the equator to the poles, and the intertidal zone to the abyss (more than 3,500 metres deep) – and housed in 48 museums across the globe. Continue reading...

There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, and others have huge eyes set far back into their heads. But how did all this morphological diversity first come to be? Thanks to a new anglerfish family tree, now we know. Scientists built this evolutionary tree using genetic information from hundreds of samples and anglerfish specimens across the globe. It indicates that anglerfish originated from an ancestor that crawled along the seafloor ... and sheds new light on how experts could think about biodiversity as a whole.

Leadbeater’s possum spotted in NSW at Kosciuszko national park, at least 250km away from the nearest sighting in Victoria. * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A critically endangered possum species thought to be isolated to Victoria has been found in a New South Wales alpine national park. Previously thought to be extinct in the state, a leadbeater’s possum has been found in Kosciuszko national park, at least 250km away from the nearest sighting in Victoria. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

The Australian animals were locally extinct but have had a resurgence in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Western quolls (Idnya) and brushtail possums (Virlda), once locally extinct, are flourishing in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park 10 years after their reintroduction. “They’re pretty funny. We go spotlighting at night … you can spotlight at the campsite there and see them running around, looking for bits of food,” National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) reintroduction ecologist Talitha Moyle said. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Egg-laying monotremes have no nipples, so young rub their beaks against ‘milk patch’ to get milk from mother’s skin * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When echidna mothers nurse their young, known as puggles, the microbiome of their pouch changes to protect their babies in their first weeks of life, new research has found. These first few weeks are critical for puggles. At this early developmental stage, they are tiny – roughly the size of a 5-cent coin – and vulnerable. Continue reading...

The New Zealand Department of Conservation, which has managed a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta since 2006, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, hen-shaped white egg started emerging from a snail’s slimy neck. The land snails, otherwise known as the Mount Augustus snail, are found only in New Zealand and are among some of the largest in the world. They are slow-growing and can live for decades. Continue reading...

Characterised by darkness and cold temperatures, the extreme environment of Antarctica’s deep sea is largely unexplored. Now, after a special marine science voyage, a team aboard Australia’s national icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, has collected some remarkable species from the waters around the Denman Glacier * Read more about RSV Nuyina’s crucial mission to Antarctica Continue reading...

Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat