A bittern hiding in the grass in Florida – Lee Coursey – CC license, Flickr What’s secretive, pretends to be a stick, and is sometimes confused with a mythical creature? The figure in focus of this question is a beloved bird that’s returning in numbers to Tasmania for the first time in 40 years. The …
Jem and Zoe, rescued from Tiger King Park – credit: Lions, Tigers, and Bears Animal Sanctuary A San Diego wildlife sanctuary is proud to report that two of the 69 tigers rescued from the infamous collection of the ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic are thriving at their Alpine, CA location. Participating in the rescue of the …
Dean Lomax, Ruby Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, and Paul de la Salle with ichthyosaur fossil – Courtesy of Dean Lomax While these fossils may not look like much, they are part of the jawbone of what is now believed to be the largest marine reptile ever to swim in the seas. The beast could have measured …
Mountain chickadee – Eugene Beckes, CC 4.0. Lost your keys? Can’t remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee. These half-ounce birds, with brains slightly larger than a pea, stash tens of thousands of food items like seeds in tree bark, under dead leaves, and inside pinecones …
Brain Gratewick, CC 2.0 license A pandemic among frogs has been going on worldwide for years—the culprit: a fungal infection that has affected amphibians on nearly every continent. But now, the discovery of a virus that has evolved to replicate inside this fungus could be the key to saving nearly 500 species of frogs that …
Members of the boys’ cross-country team at Steinbrenner High School in Lutz, Fla., on one of their regular shelter dog runs in July 2023. supplied to the media by Allison Szponar A California gym coach who was looking for ways to drum up motivation for the students on his cross-country running team as they went …
Deputy Jill Constant saved a manatee – Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department Despite weighing a tiny fraction of the creature’s massive bulk, a determined Pinellas County deputy leaped into shallow water to save a manatee struggling to breathe. Cradling it in her arms for over an hour so it could get enough oxygen, Jill Constant saved …
The Houston skyline darkened – Tendenci CC 3.0. Texas is in the middle of the most important migratory pathway for birds moving up and down the Americas—nearly 2 billion birds, or 1 out of 3 in the US, will pass over Texas during their spring and autumn migrations. To safeguard the over 400 species of …
Photo by Christopher Michel, CC license In a world first, marine biologists were able to have a discourse with a humpback whale, pushing out the boundaries of cooperation and understanding that could be possible between our two species. An adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska, was located along with a group …
By Simon Dell / SWNS A British man who six years ago built an adorable mouse village to cope with depression has added a pub, a book shop, and Hobbit homes so he could capture even more heartwarming photos. Simon Dell began creating the ‘mini shire’ when he spotted a wild mouse in his back …