Speaking at the NFU conference, the organisation's boss Tom Bradshaw warned that lethal control must be an option for any beaver releases, saying: "If beavers end up in the wrong place, then that ...

Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in April. Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration begins. Radar tracking allows you to follow along to ...

School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Professor Margaret Rayman has a doctorate in Inorganic Biochemistry from Somerville College, Oxford, and has held post-doctoral ...

A tradition born out of insect hunting and candy sales, daylight savings time was adopted and adapted over the course of a century for very specific reasons. But nowadays, does it actually help us ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

The BBC's director general Tim Davie and chair Samir Shah are being quizzed by MPs this morning on the work of the corporation. They are appearing before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to ...

So the places where fresh water is available, such as the lake in Sandgerði, attract a lot of birds. Our project is to screen for strains of avian influenza (bird flu) to study how they spread.

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...