#Birds For all you corvid lovers🐦‍⬛. A wild-born Red-billed or Cornish chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) has been seen flying over SE England for the 1st time in 200 years. The bird, hatched in Kent🪺marks a hopeful return for a species lost to the region 🤞 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Q: Why have dolphins 🐬 been spotted with a sponge 🧽 on their 'nose'? A: They use them in hunting. The sponges 🧽 are thought to provide protection when they stir up seabed gravel and pebbles while hunting prey. bbc.co.uk/newsround/arti…

#Butterflies Very rare large copper butterflies 🦋(Lycaena dispar) have unexpectedly appeared in the West Midlands. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…. Our native butterflies need all the help they can get. Planting pollinator-friendly plants 🌻 in our gardens helps: rhs.org.uk/science/resear…

Eight Socorro dove chicks 🕊️ 🐣 have hatched at Chester Zoo this year, representing hope for a species that went extinct in the wild in the 1970s 👖💫#ExtinctInTheWild #BirdConservation chesterzoo.org

#WorldOzoneDay ☀️ Earth’s ozone layer = our natural shield against UV radiation. 🧪 It’s made of oxygen (O₃) 📍 90% of it lives 10–50 km above us 💙 Without it, life as we know it wouldn’t survive. Protect the layer that protects us. #OzoneLayer #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters

👀 New space picture: You've got to hand it 👋🏻to astronomers & a stunning image of nebula MSH 15-52 – where X-rays and radio waves collide 💥🌀 📸 Image via NASA 💫 nasa.gov/image-article/… #Space #NASA #Astronomy #Nebulai

What is space? 🤯🪐 It’s more than stars & silence: it’s a lot of… nothing... & everything. What is a nebula? 🧠 Dive into the mysteries: nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-… 🚀 Ready for lift-off? Explore the cosmos at our Space Exhibition: nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibiti… #Space #Astronomy

🚀 Ever wanted to live on Pluto? You’d need to survive 248 Earth years just to celebrate your first birthday! 🎂🪐 Pluto is a dwarf planet that lives in the Kuiper Belt—a frozen frontier full of icy worlds at the edge of our Solar System. ❄️🌌 #Pluto #SpaceFacts #Astronomy

🚀 A deeper dive into Pluto’s secrets: Pluto has 5 known moons—& the biggest: Charon, is so large compared to Pluto that some astronomers call them a binary planet system! 🪐 💔And it has a glacier shaped like a heart.💔 Got questions about Pluto? 🔗 nhm.ac.uk/discover/factf…

Balance restored.☀️🌍🍂 It's September! The #AutumnalEquinox is here: when day & night are almost equal across the globe. In the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the official end of summer & start of autumn. 🌀 It only happens twice a year… #Equinox #AutumnVibes #SeasonsChange

Happy #World_Rhino_Day! Think you know #Rhinos? 🦏💭Here are 5 wild facts that may surprise you: 1️⃣ There are 5 species of rhino 2️⃣ They can weigh over 3 tonnes 3️⃣ Black & white rhinos? Both are grey 4️⃣ Their horns = compressed hair (like our nails!) 5️⃣ Mud bath fans 🛁🐾

🚨 IT'S BACK! Scientists rediscover the world's smallest snake 🐍Tetracheilostoma carlae—under a rock in Barbados 🇧🇧 after fearing it was extinct! 😱 It’s tiny, adorable, & thriving 🐍💚 #NatureIsAwesome #Herpetology #TinyButMighty #SnakeTok #Barbados🔗 smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sci…

How well do you really know your ancestors?👪 🧬💀 Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans… & now maybe more 👀 The human family tree just got messier & our relatives got older.💀🌍 : bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #HumanEvolution #Ancestors #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology #ScienceNews

🚨 BREAKING: The origin of our species has just been pushed back by 500,000 years. We’re older than we thought — & our story may have started in a different place entirely. 👣 Who were the real first humans? 🧬🧬 🔗 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/… #HumanOrigins #Evolution #AncientHumans

Watch out for a supermoon! 🌕🦸‍♀️What causes them? Find out here: nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-…

🚨 New species alert! 🌊🪸 Scientists have discovered a deep-sea coral in the Pacific & named it Iridogorgia chewbacca — yes, after THAT Chewbacca 🤯💫 Why? It’s hairy like a Wookiee. May the (ocean) force be with you 🌌 🔗 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/hairy-new… #StarWars #Chewbacca #Wookiee

🌴 A year after invasive rats 🐀 were removed, a Pacific island has booming life again! Forests 🌲 have regrown, seabirds 🐦 nest, & native species 🐢 thrive Nature revives when given a chance 💚🌊 🔗 edition.cnn.com/travel/islands… #Ecology #Biodiversity #WildlifeRecovery #NatureHeals

Research shows invasive rats don’t just wreck island life — they even change how fish behave. 🐟🐀 Yes, seriously: rats are messing with underwater algae-farming fish 🤯 They alter the balance of coral reef ecosystems in unexpected ways #MarineBiology 🔗 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…