The Vaquita, Phocoena sinus, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This small porpoise is restricted to the upper Gulf of California, Mexico, and has the unfortunate distinction of being the world’s most threatened cetacean species.
Enter the weird and wonderful underwater world of the Pistol Shrimp in this interesting short video from BBC animal show ‘Weird Nature’. Learn how the shrimp turns sound into a weapon to ward off predators and stun prey.
Jilin province of China and neighbouring Primorsky province in Russia agreed today to collaborate formally in working towards the first transboundary Amur tiger protected area amidst celebrations for the second annual Amur Tiger Cultural Festival in the northeastern Chinese city of Hunchun.
In order to survive, iguanas have adapted to tackle the rough tropical seas. The sea lions however can’t help teasing them in their death defying hunt for red and green algae.
The cave bear went extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, and European scientists say fossil DNA shows it was caused more by human expansion than climate change.
One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunked in a new paper published today in the journal PLoS ONE. An international team of scientists have reconceived the animal’s morphology, or body plan, based on a spectacular specimen housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
The Center for Biological Diversity today filed petitions to protect four mountaintop species, from Hawaii to New Hampshire, that are threatened by climate change, including the ‘i‘iwi, a Hawaiian songbird; the white-tailed ptarmigan, a grouse-like bird of the Rocky Mountains; Bicknell’s thrush, a northeastern U.S. songbird; and the San Bernardino flying squirrel of Southern California. All four are limited to high-elevation mountaintops, where a shifting climate threatens to eliminate their habitat.
Just as Peyton Manning and Drew Brees are known for incredible downfield vision, animals like sea urchins, hammerhead sharks and bees maintain visual skills that are quite eye-opening and advantageous in their fields of play.
Malaysian airport security arrested a convicted wildlife smuggler after finding almost 100 live reptiles in his luggage, the country’s Wildlife and National Parks Department said.
A U.K. researcher says the theory of a meteor impact killing off dinosaurs needs to be tweaked at bit, suggesting there was not one but many cosmic collisions.
Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh. Finding a dead seal, the sea stars inject it with digestive juices … then suck it up like soup.
A lesson in seduction from the Barry White of the bird world. The male Vogelkop bowerbird is a master of attracting a mate and getting her in the mood for love.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Interior Department’s failure to protect the critically imperiled Moapa dace, a fish found only in the upper Muddy River and its tributary springs in Nevada‘s Moapa Valley Wildlife Refuge. The suit challenges plans to suck water out of the dace’s habitat as a way to test whether large-scale groundwater pumping sought to quench southern Nevada’s unsustainable thirst for water will drive the dace to extinction. The test pumping — [...]
The Solomon Island Palm Frog, Palmatorappia solomonis, is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This species inhabits tropical rainforest on several large islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago, which straddles the border between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific.
The recent seizure in Kenya of five rhino horns and two tonnes of elephant ivory bound for Malaysia is raising concerns about the country’s role in the illegal trade of these items.
Yellow: the color of sunshine, lemons, bananas, and a surprising variety of animals. Though you may call them Mellow Yellow (quite rightly), these warmly tinted creatures don’t take their hues lightly – and neither should you.
A South African museum says it has the world’s last surviving dodo egg and is preparing to allow DNA testing of the precious exhibit to confirm it.
Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
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