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  Eastern Cougar Declared Officially Extinct; Florida Panther Still Has a Chance If Reintroduced to Okefenokee

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today declared the eastern cougar, a subspecies of the puma or mountain lion, extinct following a status review that could not authenticate any records of the animal since the last confirmed individual was killed in 1938 in Maine. Only one other subspecies of puma from the eastern United States — the Florida panther — survives. Florida panthers once ranged throughout the Southeast, but are now besieged by sprawl in a single, remnant population in [...]

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  Worldwide vertebrate status

  The status of the world’s vertebrates and conservation efforts were recently published in an article from Science Magazine. The study looked at various data covering the taxonomy, distribution, population, and threat status for 25,780 species of vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, cartilaginous and bony fish).

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• Goliath bird-eating spider – Expedition Guyana (video)

  The expedition team have set up a lab in the forest to catalogue all the animals and plants. The Guyanese forest is not a place for the squeamish as George find of the shell of the world’s largest tarantula, the Goliath bird-eating spider.

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  2 new crustaceans discovered in Iberian Peninsula

  A team of scientists has described two cladocerous crustaceans, which could be endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, and which were found in two lagoons, one in the lower basin of the Guadalquivir river, and the other in the grasslands of Extremadura. Both of these arthropods may today inhabit more areas in the Mediterranean region.

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  Monarch Butterflies Could Number 200 Million This Year

  Despite recent cold snaps that brought record-setting low temperatures over much of Texas, the outlook for the annual Monarch butterfly invasion to the state looks promising “and better than expected,” says a Texas A&M University researcher.

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  ‘Frog from hell’ fossil unearthed

  A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.

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