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First-time mother Zura has a healthy litter of five at the Smithsonian's conservation centre, where a den camera is streaming the cubs' first weeks.
Decades of recordings from Kenya's Amboseli National Park indicate that when elephant families rumble together they are sending a joint message.
Nearly half a million people voted, and four native animals will replace historical figures on the next series of Bank of England notes.
Aboriginal rangers in north-western New South Wales have found about 50 Darling River snails, a species once feared extinct, breeding on a weir where none had been seen for decades.
The lions living alongside these Samburu communities have grown from 11 to 60 since young warriors turned their tracking skills to conservation.
Drone pilots in Geographe Bay have captured the world’s second-largest animal, one of them within 50 metres of the shore.
Thirty-eight Arabian sand gazelles are living among the panels of a working solar farm, the start of a herd meant to restock a vast royal reserve.
The South African town with its own whale crier is enjoying a strong season, as a species once hunted close to extinction leaps just offshore.
A survey of 123 species finds a white bird from the Atlantic Forest calling at 130 decibels, louder than a jackhammer and five decibels above the previous record.
Two birds raised in a breeding centre have been set free in Rajasthan’s Desert National Park, opening the rewilding phase of a decade-long rescue effort.
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