Tongan government investigating the capsize of whale watching boat
Tonga’s government is investigating after a boat carrying more than a dozen whale watchers capsized in rough seas…
Mumbai was estimated to have about 95,000 stray dogs, and researchers calculated that leopards living around the city’s 104-square-kilometre Sanjay Gandhi National Park may reduce dog bites and rabies deaths by preying heavily on those dogs
A big cat living inside one of the world’s densest cities sounds like a story about a mauling.…
Drone pilot films great white, tiger sharks gorging on whale carcass off Bawley Point
Professional bodyboarder and marine mammal rescue volunteer Lilly Pollard always wanted to film a shark from a drone…
Every wild land mammal on Earth — elephants, deer, wolves, mice and the rest — adds up to only about 20 million tonnes, a 2023 study estimated, roughly three kilograms per person, compared with about 390 million tonnes of humans
Add up every wild land mammal alive today, every elephant, wolf, red deer, field mouse and cave bat,…
Indigenous rangers appeal for more bird flu funding to protect biodiversity, human health
Indigenous ranger groups working in Australia’s remotest wild areas are appealing to the federal government to increase their…
Adorable Baby Elephant at Zoo Plays With a Ball and We Are in Love
A baby elephant had so much fun playing with a ball at the Smithsonian Zoo, and everyone is…
‘Pigs out, people in’ – feral animals ripping up native bush in Auckland ranges
An explosion in feral pig numbers is tearing up native bush in the Waitākere Ranges and has led…
Drones over the Azores recorded two sperm whales turning to face each other, converging at speed and striking head-on with the front of the skull — the battering-ram collision the species’ anatomy had implied for two centuries, and nobody had ever filmed
For two centuries, one detail about the sperm whale has sat there unresolved. Its head, taking up roughly…
Despite weighing a massive 4 tonnes, this mammal can dive 2000 metres down, hold its breath for an incredible 2 hours and even control its heart rate
The gold medal for deep diving goes to a bull southern elephant seal, recorded at an incredible 2,388m,…
First Bluefin Tuna Caught in North Sea in 60 Years Is Sign of Healthy Ecosystem
– credit, Dominator, supplied to the BBC Jack Gardner couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the behemoth…
Björn Persson’s New Book Highlights the World’s Incredible and Endangered Wildlife — Colossal
From the Tanzanian grasslands around Mount Kilimanjaro to the ever-evolving icy realm of Antarctica and beyond, Swedish photographer…
In 2024, fishers accidentally caught a 2.5-metre goblin shark alive off the Canary Islands, marking the first recorded live sighting of the species there |
Goblin shark, PC: University of La Laguna In May 2024, a group of recreational fishers off the coast…