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There are less than 3,000 tigers in the wild. Image: Shutterstock

Tigers on the brink of extinction

Tigers and humans try to coexist, but will we be able to save this endangered species?

The world's first eyeless huntsman spider in its original habitat. Credit: Senckenberg/Peter Jäger.

Eye of the spider…or not

A German scientist has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider.

A newborn bee breaks free from her nursery chamber within the colony nest. Image: Christofer Bang

Diabetes for bees

A bee’s sensitivity to sugar reveals her attitude to food.

Ural owl (Strix uralensis). Image: Artush/Shutterstock

Mysterious gaze

The Ural owl can be found in Europe and Asia. Its average wingspan is 1.30 metres; females are larger than males, and they usually weigh up to 1.3 kilograms. Strix uralensis hunts rodents…

Check out those claw marks on the rock — he sure is one angry cat. Image: Emin Kuliyev/Shutterstock

I can see it, I can feel it but I just can’t reach it!

You can roar all you like big cat, but I ain’t moving!

Dishes

SKA: the winning sites and the science

Ladybird spiders were rediscovered in 1979. Image: Pavel Krasensky

The elusive ladybird spider

With a striking red abdomen decorated with six black spots, the male ladybird spider is one of the world’s most fascinating — and elusive — creatures. This spider (Eresus cinnaberinus) is an endangered…

Elephants eat grass, leaves, roots, fruits and bark. Image: Johan Swanepoel/Shutterstock

Elephants still in danger

Elephants remember the exact location of their water supplies.

Two of the paintings from Abri Castanet. Image: Raphaëlle Bourrillon

Earliest evidence of human art

An engraved ceiling predates the famous paintings at the Grotte Chauvet. 

Togs, the baby Bush Budgerigar. Image: Wild Life Sydney

Baby bush budgie

Bush budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) are one of Australia’s smallest parrots.

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