In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

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The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

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Quick Take African penguins faced an eight-year die-off from 2004 to 2011, with about 62,000 adults dying mainly from starvation. Sardines, the penguins’ main prey, failed to rebound, forcing longer ...

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A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where ...

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