The Conservation Officer Service is recommending that people secure their poultry and other small animals living outdoors ...

The wildlife world is amazing and it is up to us to make sure it thrives and is protected. Many have wildlife that visits their yards. Seeing a lynx or bobcat in your yard is a real treat as long as ...

Naming someone after a desert can be a creative exercise to come up with very unique baby names that are not common to most people. It's quite the thing these days to choose a name that stands out ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Those living in and around the Scottish Highlands may have caught a glimpse of something not seen in that part of the world for hundreds of years: the lynx. At least two creatures were spotted roaming ...

He has received funding from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund at the University of Oxford to study public perceptions of lynx reintroduction to Scotland. Hanna Pettersson does not work for ...

For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. This was an action that is ...

The second week of January was notable in the Highlands for a good amount of snow, back-to-back weather warnings and the illegal release of four lynx cats. Lynx have been extinct in Scotland for ...

Last week, four lynx were captured in the Cairngorms after being illegally released near Kingussie in the Highlands. Members of the public initially spotted two lynx on January 8 before they were ...

He is also an Affiliate of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. Four lynx were recently and illegally released into the Scottish highlands. The news prompted searchers to comb the Cairngorms region ...

Four lynx that were illegally released into the Highlands were found to be showing signs of starvation, experts say. The animals - that no longer exist in the wild - were taken in by the Royal ...