Royal Caribbean Ship Arrives in Alaska with Dead Endangered Whale on Its Bow
NEED TO KNOW A dead pregnant fin whale was found on the bow of Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of…
Spider which uses spring trap to capture prey discovered in Australia
A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant…
Uganda conservationists increase efforts to protect mountain gorillas
Mountain gorillas are some of man’s closest living relatives They share more than 98% of their DNA with…
Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for more than 6,000 years, have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula — a discovery made possible by old museum specimens, rare field photographs, fossil fragments and the knowledge of Indigenous Tambrauw and Maybrat elders.
Two marsupials known to science only from fossils, and presumed gone for more than 6,000 years, have turned…
Photographer has nervy encounter with enormous grizzly bear in Alaska
Bears make for majestic wildlife photo subjects, but get too close and they may just start eyeing you…
Darwin’s bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more than ten times tougher than Kevlar, and strings its web across rivers on bridge lines up to 25 meters long
A spider in Madagascar makes a thread that outperforms anything in the materials labs of the human world.…
A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years, and biologists still cannot explain how it ages so slowly
In the flooded caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives a pale, blind salamander the size of a pencil,…
Family finds large snake hiding behind living room TV
June 22 (UPI) — A professional reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland, Australia, home where a large…
A black jaguar sniffs Brazil to beat Scotland in Group C challenge
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A new animal oracle for the World Cup has arrived, and it’s the…
Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” shutting down permanently, sources say
Companies hired by the state to operate the Florida immigration facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were notified Monday…
A spate of shark bites has Australian ocean lovers on edge. People want to know why they’re rising | Sharks
Rob Harcourt is heading back from a “beautiful surf” at Bondi on a warm and sunny winter’s morning…
Brown skuas and giant petrels rarely make landfall. When they were found in WA, scientists feared ‘bad news’ for wildlife | Wildlife
Brown skuas and giant petrels are a common sight offshore in southern Australian waters in the winter months,…