Q&a do ostriches really bury their heads in the sand?

Discover the remarkable resilience of Earth’s oldest and hardiest animals, overcoming mass extinctions and conquering the planet’s ever-changing climate

WHEN YOU’RE HIKING IN THE Australian bush, your eyes home in on every distant blob. Everything looks like an echidna. Or at least that’s what you hope. Then you blink yourself back to reality, because

The marsh harrier, with its effortlessly slow and floating signature manoeuvre, is so enjoying its UK comeback that it now stays with us all year round

The white-tailed eagle, the UK’s largest bird of prey, was brought back from extinction – and it all started with an ambitious project on a mountainous Scottish island, half a century ago...

They’ve recently made headlines for interfering with boats, but intelligent, family-focused and remarkably long-lived orcas–better known as killer whales–contain multitudes,

Curlews need all the help they can get ...