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WALKING WITH PENGUINS

Mourning her late husband, photographer Ursula Clare Franklin needed a new direction. Soon she was travelling the world, on a quest to photograph her favourite animal, the penguin all 18 species of them

"Satellites and space tech play a huge role in protecting the natural world"

Far above our heads, space technology is supporting conservation in exciting and vital ways

FOREVER YOUNG

The prehistoric-looking insect that never grows up

BIRDS THAT BREAK THE RULES

Discover the extraordinary birds that defy nature's norms

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

Vampire bats make for blood-spewing besties

Onagers gallop back to Saudi Arabia

Rare subspecies fills the desert niche left by its extinct relative

Front lines for nature

Inside the ambitious UK project rallying local communities to fight for wildlife

"Europe seems hellbent on creating the most hostile environment for bears possible"

WE EUROPEANS ARE INCAPABLE of living alongside predators.

Airborne lifts off on Sky Nature

ACROSS THE PLANET, ANIMALS HAVE conquered the skies in ways we can only dream of.

CROSS COUNTRY

Translocating elephants is no mean feat-but it's helping this iconic mammal to reclaim its historic lands

Oyster reefs in ruins

Vital habitat is all but lost from Europe's seas

Protect the prey and the lions will roar

Study proves that lions thrive when snaring is reduced

wild MARCH

7 nature encounters for the month ahead

GILLIAN BURKE

\"Many of us have been disconnected from the miracle that is water\"

ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Wolves

WOLVES ARE THE LARGEST members of the dog family (Canidae) and can be found in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa. They are highly sociable mammals that typically travel and hunt in packs.

How is a queen bee chosen?

PEOPLE HAVE LONG PEERED INTO beehives and seen a model for human society. There is much to admire the work ethic, the cooperation, the selflessness. But a hive could equally be seen as a product of a repressive class system, even a tyranny. Because some bees are more equal than others.

Big cats in BRITAIN

Sightings and DNA tests suggest that large cats such as black leopards are quietly naturalising in Britain. Here’s the whole story.

SLOW BUT SURE

The Javan slow loris has suffered a huge population decline in recent years. But conservation efforts are turning the tide for this fascinating animal.

wild FEBRUARY

7 nature encounters for the month ahead

AI brings hope for rare reds

New tech 'Squirrel Agent' can target invasive greys at feeders

SHAPE OF YOU

Its hefty headgear has garnered this sap-sucker mythical status

Smell: an ancient animal sense

DETECTING CHEMICALS IN THE environment enables an individual to identify molecules secreted by predators or prey, potential poisons and sexual partners. This benefit D to survival and reproduction helps explain why smell - olfaction - is probably the oldest sense and evolved 500 million years ago, around the origin of animals.

Feeding birds may kill them

We love to attract birds to our gardens, but feeders can pose a deadly risk

A CRAB CALLED JOHN

The yellow land crab lives a secret life on an island stronghold off the coast of Brazil. One photographer went to find out more about this charismatic crustacean.

REACH FOR THE SKY

In the 1970s, the bald eagle was on the verge of extinction. Thanks in part to the pioneering work of one young biologist, this magnificent bird has made a spectacular comeback.

Why do penguins give stones to each other?

THERE'S NOT A GREAT CHOICE OF NEST-building materials in the Antarctic. Pretty much the only things available to gentoo, Adélie and chinstrap penguins are pebbles, which at least serve to raise eggs off the frozen ground.

LIFE'S A BEACH

These impressive predators launch themselves from the surf in a spectacular hunting strategy

Big step for great Indian bustards

Artificial insemination offers a ray of hope

Why aren't pterosaurs classed as dinosaurs?

THROUGHOUT THE MANY MILLIONS OF years that the likes of Triceratops, T. rex and Brontosaurus dominated the land, pterosaurs ruled the skies.

Renato Granieri talks chimps, penguins and high altitudes

SNAP-CHAT WITH BBC WILDLIFE PICTURE EDITOR TOM GILKS