‘Homecoming’: Critically endangered antelopes returned to Kenyan forests from Czech zoo
Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in…
Protecting wild animals has never been more urgent. But there’s a reason it can be harder than it seems.
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Celebrating with a Cake Topped with Fish, World’s Oldest Penguin Turns 38
Spneb the penguin celebrates her birthday – credit, Paradise Park / SWNS A penguin believed to be the…
What Happens If You Put An African Silverback In The Arctic?
Via iStockphoto / alpha.class.animals Instagram Wonder what the arctic would be like if polar bears weren’t the apex…
Giant 62ft ‘Kraken-like’ octopus capable of pulling down ships found to have roamed seas
No matter how long us humans have been roaming about on land, it remains that only just five…
Rainforests Can Bounce Back Much Faster Than Thought, Researchers Say
Scientists once thought it would take a century or more for animals to return to deforested land in…
Earth Day began in 1970, pushing activism on pollution
Millions of people around the world will pause Wednesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day.…
What’s happening to Timmy the whale? The lost humpback that’s likely to die in the Baltic Sea
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Timmy, the whale stranded off Germany’s coast, swims off and gets stuck…again
Efforts to rescue a humpback whale stranded for weeks on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast were complicated on Monday…
Sperm whales clicks ‘one of closest parallels’ to human language, study reveals
Sperm whale clicks are among the closest parallels to human language ever identified in the animal kingdom, a…
Rescuers try to save stranded whale Timmy with the help of air cushions
BERLIN (AP) — Rescuers in Germany began an elaborate operation Thursday to save a sick humpback whale that…
Critically endangered Borneo orangutan born at Madrid zoo
A critically endangered Borneo orangutan has been born at Madrid‘s zoo, described by keepers as strong and developing…