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February brings new beginnings for gardens everywhere
FEBRUARY dawns and new life is springing up across the late winter garden.
Illumination all but dazzles now and out of the remaining darkness colour breaks noiselessly. Observe it by getting outside every day.
St Kilda's unusual meat-eating field mice
Meat appears to have increasingly become part of the diet of St Kilda's unusual field mice.
The mice are thought to have arrived on the remote archipelago with the Vikings or with the isle's first residents.
Puffins face extinction in Scotland
Puffins - Portly little gentlemen wearing dinner jackets and bright orange shoes is how they look. Their multi-coloured beaks are unmistakeable.
Rare albino honey badger captured on camera in South Africa
Honey badgers have cemented their place as one of Africa's most fearsome and charismatic predators – helped in no small part by jaw-dropping videos of the two-toned creatures tackling leopards and playing 'python tug-of-war' with jackals.