How Did Two Baby Giraffes Go Missing For Over A Year?
iStockphoto Baby giraffe with mom in background You might think it would be pretty hard to keep two…
Australia’s suspected H5 bird flu case ‘sobering but not unexpected’
For years Australia has remained the last continent to avoid the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza. Now…
Playful Lion Cub Learns a Lesson From Mom
A heartwarming wildlife encounter captured in Tanzania’s Serengeti shows a lioness and her nearly adolescent cub engaging in…
How a brainless sea blob still ‘feels’ touch and crawls away in seconds without nerves or muscles
Touch triggers travel. A cut causes Trichoplax to rapidly rotate the microscopic anchors of its cilia (basal bodies),…
This tiny, brave carnivore battles rival groups. Now researchers have discovered something astonishing about their defences
When you’re a little creature in the animal kingdom, you need to be constantly on the lookout for…
194-Year-Old Tortoise Becomes World’s Oldest Known Land Animal
Some animals live much longer than humans, but one tortoise has lived through nearly two centuries. Jonathan, a…
Missing Baby Giraffes Are Finally Safe
The long-running question of what happened to two missing giraffe calves in Virginia now has an answer.…
Elephant seal pups rack up PFAS while nursing
Northern elephant seal females and pups go through intense cycles of fueling and fasting. Thanks to extremely…
Secretive baboon colony hidden in major Aussie city sparks scrutiny over animal research
For decades, a government-funded colony of more than 160 baboons has lived, bred and died on Sydney’s outskirts,…
New species of walking sharks discovered in PNG
A new species of walking sharks have been discovered in the waters off of eastern Papua New Guinea.…
Satellite tags reveal manta rays stay in one place until ocean conditions drive them deeper
Local divers in Papua New Guinea’s Samarai Islands kept seeing the same reef manta rays at the same…
Australian scientists discover new shark species in PNG that walks on its fins
A research team diving in Papua New Guinea has discovered a new, highly vulnerable species of shark that…