Tag: Wildlife

When a snake strikes, it moves so fast it could hit you four times within the space of one eyeblink. If a human moved that fast they would lose consciousness Lying camouflaged amid the deserts and grasslands of southern California,…

The rare birth of a Sumatran rhino in Indonesia has been hailed a victory for the critically endangered species,which has been almost wiped out in the wild by poaching and habitat destruction. Conservationists wept in joy as the healthy female…

In 1975, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow was diving off the Banda Islands in Indonesia, when he collected a leopard sea cucumber—a cylindrical relative of starfish and sea urchins. It was a large and stubby specimen, 40 centimetres long (16 inches) and…

It is perhaps fitting that invasive hippos, with their “hungry, hungry” reputations, would be the lasting legacy of one of the world’s most notorious drug lords. Colombia’s Pablo Escobar built an empire on cocaine that made him one of the…

As the sea ice on which it depends breaks apart, the Baltic ringed seal of northern Europe is declining fast, experts say. A Baltic ringed seal rests on a rock in Estonia’s Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Protection Area. “One, two, three.…

The death of Scarface, a famous Yellowstone bear, has inflamed a fight over protections. The grizzly bear known as Scarface roams Yellowstone National Park in July. He was fatally shot in November. Last week the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife…

Pink dolphins have long lived in the urban waters around the islands and in the harbor of Hong Kong, where they have earned a symbolic place in the city’s history and culture. However, there is rising concern among scientists that…

Palau’s unique golden jellyfish are probably being hammered by drought and El Niño. These Beautiful Creatures Spend Their Entire Lives in Darkness. Like ‘Deadpool,’ This Jellyfish Has Amazing Superpowers.Mysterious Balls of Goo Are Rolling Onto American Beaches Swimming with golden jellyfish swarms…

 Snakebites kill up to 94,000 people worldwide every year, with the highest number of deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The main obstacle to saving lives is the global availability of antivenom. Until fairly recently, the gold standard has…

Swaziland shocks the global conservation community with a bid to sell rhino horn to Asia. Less than a week after the South African government announced that international sale of its stockpiled rhino horn was not in the interest of the…

It’s all hands (and paws) on deck when it comes to the poaching crisis in Africa. Didi and Leyian, her handler with the Kenyan Big Life Tracker Dog Unit, are poised to start a search. The moment Leyian straps on…

San Clemente – The massive, reeking carcass of a 40-foot gray whale rotted Tuesday at a popular California surfing spot, luring dozens of gawkers while authorities decided whether to tow it out to sea or cut it into pieces and…

Exploring the wild in the nation’s capital with field notes from Rock Creek Park. Washington, D.C.Walking along the trail on this April day, wildflowers and blossoms dot the ground: bluebells, violets, spring beauties, trout lilies, jack-in-the-pulpit, mayapples, and bloodroot. Redbuds…

The large North American deer have evolved a dual strategy to produce their bloodcurdling shrieks, a new study says. Scientists have solved one of nature’s greatest mysteries: How do big bull elk produce an eerie shriek that sounds like the…

Scientists are training an endangered furry marsupial—Australia’s beloved quoll—to avoid eating toxic toads that have devastated predator populations in a novel attempt to save native fauna. Carnivorous quolls, commonly known as the native cat, are under attack from the poisonous…

The Carolina parakeet went extinct in 1918. This specimen lies in eternal slumber at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Dozens of species likely go extinct each day, but how many do most of us remember? Besides dinosaurs and…

Dhaka – Dolphins are still not safe in the marine protected swatch of no-ground areas of the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans’ dolphin sanctuaries, according to a wildlife expert, unb news agency reported.

The fleeing of a mollusk from a New Zealand aquarium has captivated the world. Here’s how he did it, and what it means. An octopus at New Zealand’s National Aquarium made a break for freedom by slipping out of its…

Tokyo — A chimpanzee escaped from a zoo in northern Japan, climbed a tall electricity pole and then plunged from the wires into a blanket held by a dozen workers after being hit with a sedative arrow. Chacha, a male…

When pint-size pigs grow bigger than promised, they wind up euthanized or in overburdened shelters. Can education, regulation, and more sanctuaries solve the problem? Daisy Mae, miniature Vietnamese pot-bellied pig lounges in her West St Paul, Minnesota home with her…

Before the arrival of humans—and the rats, cats, and other predators that we brought—New Zealand was an idyllic haven for birds. Without ground-dwelling mammalian hunters to bother them, many of the local species lost the ability to fly. There’s the…

From birds that remove their babies’ “dirty diapers” to crows that store their tools, nature is full of orderly species. An eastern bluebird flies away from its nest with a sac of its babies’ poop in Florida. Kids, listen up:…

There’s a new poaching hotspot, and it’s not where people expected. A chunk of territory in southern Africa about the size of France has long been considered one of the last strongholds of the African elephant. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation…

Commuting to and from work every day on public transportation can be a miserable experience, but imagine how much better it would be if a cute cat was your fellow passenger. Apparently, that can definitely happen if you reside in…

To Hannah Wood’s naked eye, it looked like the tiny spider in the pile of dead leaves in Chile wasn’t doing much of anything. Wood, then a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was in South America to…

The plan was to hunt antelope, so he rented a skiff, paddled to a nearby East African island, hopped out, and wandered into the woods, when all of a sudden, there it was—a staggeringly enormous, weirdly shaped plant towering over…

Gentoo penguins climb up a snowy slope on Danco Island in the Western Antarctic Peninsula on March 14, 2016; Photograph by Carolyn Van Houten A flurry of snowflakes swirls past in the cold morning air—at least they look like snow—but…

Caracals are expert bird hunters, capable of catching them in mid-flight with incredible leaps. They are built for a vertical launch. But what goes up must come down – and come down in the right way. The exact mechanism by…

Brian Switek A beautifully preserved fossil from France has given paleontologists a look at an animal that is almost, but not quite, the earliest known spider. The eight-legged creature lived 305 million years ago and has been named Idmonarachne brasieri,…

A diver takes pictures as people look at sharks from an underwater room structure installed in the Aquarium of Paris.The house rules are clear: No swimming at night, keep your head and feet in the bedroom at all times, and…