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World Society for the Protection of Animals seeks museum for unique Wildlife Crime display
The World Society for the Protection of Animals and a wildlife crime team working for London's Metropolitan Police are appealing to potential venues to host an exhibition.
In her own Words: Photographer Eleanor Farmer on Blood, A Circulation of Curiosities
As she opens a show at Guy's Hospital in London, the photographer explains how her pictures of blood represent life and death, with the capacity to fascinate and repel.
Immortal Nature sees ten artists ponder impending doom at London's Edel Assanti
A psycho-geographical, end-of-the-world exploration of the relationship between civilisation and nature turns the floors of the gallery into Underworld, Earth and the Afterlife.
Grant Museum of Zoology welcomes Art by Animals to University College London
An anthropomorphic show at the Grant Museum, where curators have put together a series of works created by animals to take a "broad view of the phenomenon".
Mancunians could enjoy more wildlife wonders as Wythenshawe Park becomes nature reserve
An 85-hectare area of one of Manchester's most popular parks has been given nature reserve status in a decision lauded by councillors as "great news" for residents.
Brilliant biologist D'Arcy Thompson inspires new art collection at University of Dundee
The late 19th and early 18th century polymath, best known for book On Growth and Form and decades of academic leadership, will be the subject of a £100,000 art collection.
Manx National Heritage hails Isle of Man visits by exotic Vagrant Emperor dragonfly species
Natural history experts on the Isle of Man say an "amazing" small species of dragonfly may have flown in from sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East.
National Trust reports "meteoric" rise of seal pups on Norfolk coast's Blakeney Point
A popular Norfolk nature reserve is appealing to the public to help look out for grey seals following a 31-fold population explosion since their introduction a decade ago.
130 million-year-old Iguanodon dinosaur bone found in Sunderland back garden
Experts from the Natural History Museum have been poring over a mysterious Sussex dinosaur bone which has been given to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.
National Museum entomologist and fly expert swaps Cardiff for Chile in biodiversity trip
Dr Adrian Plant will spend three weeks in the Chilean Lake District as part of a group trip pursuing the insects who can answer questions about biodiversity in Wales.
Jamie Hewlett, Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman and Margaret Atwood in Ghosts of Gone Birds
Gorillaz filmmaker Ceri Levy's call for creative responses to the plight of endangered birds results in an intriguing display of more than 80 artists at London's Rochelle School.
Curator's Choice: Ceri Levy on the extinct White Gallinule in Ghosts of Gone Birds
The curator and co-founder of Ghosts of Gone Birds, a range of artistic takes on extinct birds, on the contribution by illustration magazine Le Gun.
Polar film to "reawaken" human connection to mankind at Manchester Science Festival
The Royal Northern College of Music will host spectacular film footage accompanied by acclaimed composer John Harle and the Manchester Camerata.
300-million-year-old fossil fish resident returns to Bude Castle Heritage Centre
The Castle Heritage Centre in Bude is to welcome back the Cornish town's oldest resident - a 300-million-year-old fossil fish with razor sharp teeth.
Archaeopteryx - missing link between birds and dinosaurs comes to National Museum Cardiff
A rare fossil that provides much debate among palaeontologists as to the link between dinosaurs and birds is to go on show at National Museum Cardiff.
