Great white shark Breton making unusual moves with latest location ping
Video from Sept. 2020 shows OCEARCH tagging an adult male white shark named Breton. Breton weighed more than…
Mating season may be behind monkeying around on Hong Kong MTR tracks: expert
Hong Kong could see more monkey encounters during the animals’ mating season, an expert has said, after one…
Pima County sees record bat exposures in July
TUCSON, Ariz. — It’s the time of year when bats are seen throughout Pima County, and it is…
Scientists make rare discovery in Northeast Greenland National Park
A local diver captured a rare glimpse of an elusive blue-ringed octopus carrying her eggs off Australia’s Victoria…
At the start of winter, the wood frog of North America stops breathing, lets ice form in the spaces between its cells, and its heart stops entirely for up to seven months — then in spring it thaws, its heart restarts, and it hops away as if nothing happened
The wood frog of North America, Lithobates sylvaticus, spends part of every winter frozen. As the cold sets…
Arctic ground squirrels drop their body temperature to nearly three degrees below freezing during hibernation — the coldest ever recorded in a mammal — a state that should crystallise their blood and kill them, but through a phenomenon called supercooling, their body fluids remain liquid, and they wake in spring unharmed
The Arctic ground squirrel holds the lowest core body temperature ever measured in a mammal. During hibernation its…
Differences in human and great ape laughter reveal clues to the origin of speech
Humans are not the only animals that communicate. Birds sing to attract mates, dolphins use signature whistles that…
In 1904, Newfoundland released four moose to attract hunters; their population later reached 200,000 and began reshaping the island’s forests
Moose occur naturally in Labrador but not on the island of Newfoundland. More than a century ago, Newfoundland,…
Firefighters rescue baby otters from storm drain in Nottinghamshire
Firefighters rescued three “very cold and extremely hungry” baby otters from a storm drain in Nottinghamshire. Nottinghamshire Fire…
Why Jimothy the raccoon has become a mega meme online – BBC
Why Jimothy the raccoon has become a mega meme online BBCMeet the raccoon who became an overnight sensation in…
A baby elephant’s mother rejected her at birth. Her keeper refused to leave her side for nearly a month |
Image: The Washington Post When Asian elephant calf Linh Mai was born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in…
Every Antarctic winter, male emperor penguins stand for two months without food to protect a single egg |
On the frozen plains of Antarctica, emperor penguins begin a breeding cycle that seems almost impossible. As temperatures…