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.
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