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Octopuses may dream while they're asleep, say researchers

'For a long time, only vertebrates were known to cycle between two different sleep stages'

Wales Online

The ancient megalodon shark survival myth

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago.

The Week

Gamekeepers launch petition to legalise killing foxes as 'act of conservation'

A PETITION has been raised to the Scottish Parliament calling for the law to be changed to make the killing of predators such as foxes and crows…

The National (Scotland)

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Octopuses changing skin pattern while asleep may show they dream, research shows

Scientists say the cephalopods have stages similar to REM sleep seen in vertebrates including humans

The Guardian - UK

A Major Agricultural Pest Hides the Key to Its Survival in Its Poop

Squash bugs find the poop of members of their own species and eat it, ingesting the symbiont and giving themselves a chance to thrive.

Inverse

Do octopuses dream of electric eels?

Researchers glimpsed REM-like reverie in one of the ocean's most brilliant creatures and saw human-like patterns

Salon

Octopuses may be capable of dreaming, study suggests

Researchers suggest their findings pose the question of whether octopuses are capable of dreaming.

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Beaver spotted ambling around Welsh garden in broad daylight

Animal spotted at end of last year – the first to appear in the wild in Wales for centuries – makes surprise daytime appearance

The Guardian - UK

Warning scorching heatwave has brought monster swarms of bees everywhere this summer

With one meteorological consultant predicting a "heat dome" in UK weather forecasts, temperatures are expected to rise again - and with it will remain large swarms of bees

Daily Mirror

Flying Ant Day 2023: 'Bumper swarm' warning that could last WEEKS ahead of mass flight

Flying Ant Day could be just around the corner, but experts have warned that the pests' mass flight could actually last weeks in 2023 owing to favourable weather conditions

Daily Mirror

‘It gets worse every day’: why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast?

The unprecedented outbreak has scientists concerned as record number of animals turn up lifeless on beaches

The Guardian - US

Natural England designates Cornish moorland a nature conservation area

There were shouts of ‘Shame on you!’ at the meeting in St Ives, as critics say decision is ‘disastrous’ for farmers

The Guardian - UK

Killer whales are attacking boats in Spain and Portugal and this is why

A number of mariners have reported their boats being repeatedly rammed, sometimes damaging vessels

Wales Online

Hotter, faster fires: can Canada preserve its threatened wildlife?

The half-moon hairstreak butterfly is among the endangered species fighting the heat and smoke of a record wildfire season

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Dolphins, whales and seals being failed by UK government policy, MPs say

UK urged to use trade deals as bargaining tool to protect marine mammals

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: An oasis of orchids on an industrial estate

Sandy, Bedfordshire: And not just any old orchids – these are the famously fickle bee variety, growing in great numbers by the asphalt

Boston Herald

Great whites near Cape Cod shore take center stage in National Geographic's Sharkfest

BOSTON — Hundreds of great white sharks hunting seals close to shore along Cape Cod, and how local researchers are hoping to predict shark behavior, is the focus of a new National Geographic special for Sharkfest next week.

The Guardian - AU

Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged

Rob Blakers says he was ‘surprised then furious’ that trees in foraging and feeding habitat for birds, whose numbers are down to just 750, were being destroyed

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The Independent UK

British bats ‘can help identify coronaviruses with potential to infect humans’

The findings report the circulation of four species of coronaviruses, including two previously unknown ones, among the 16 UK bat species sampled.

The Independent UK

Orangutans ‘can make two sounds at the same time, similar to human beatboxing’

Findings provide clues around evolution of human speech

Daily Record

The real reason killer whales are attacking ships after boat rammed in Scotland

Videos have gone viral across social media of orcas slamming into sailing boats and chasing other sea animals in what people have guessed to be their type of fun - or some form of intimidation.

Irish Mirror

Deal on 'general approach' to Nature Restoration Law at EU Environment Council - with Ireland in favour

Eamon Ryan made an impassioned plea to his European counterparts to protect 'our incredible natural world' but Fine Gael still 'undecided'

Daily Mirror

Forager baffled after finding mushrooms 'the size of a sheep' during woodland walk

Keen forager Mateusz Sztajnert-Bluj discovered a large collection of the UK's largest mushrooms known as Dryad's Saddle during a walk in Beecraigs Country Park

Daily Mirror

This is the real reason killer whales are attacking ships - and it's not about revenge

Social media is awash with stories of sailors being rammed by orcas or being chased by sea animals in what appears to be either a bit of fun or intimidation

Newcastle Herald

From the outback to the beach, students learn uni isn't 'big and scary'

Menindee's Jaz Fusi may live 1000km from the sea, but she now dreams of becoming a marine biologist.

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