Screengrab from Palo Alto Online video A strange creature was spotted in a trail cam scampering across the Matadero Creek near Palo Alto south of San Francisco. Biologists were scratching their heads as they reviewed the footage. It was clearly a mammal, but there are only a certain number of mammals in the area. “Finally, …
Sylvie Ayer – released Oceanographic Magazine is heralding the conclusion of its photo/photographer of the year awards, and the results highlight the otherworldy nature of our oceans. The winners of the various categories had to beat out thousands of entries and come from all over the Earth, from quiet estuarine seagrass meadows to the blackness of …
Lindsey Stallworth, who found the fossil on her family farm – ASMS Like many kids, Lindsey Stallworth from Alabama loves a day out to look for sharks’ teeth. But on one such trip, it was a far bigger, far older discovery that awaited her. Stallworth was with her high school biology teacher, but it was …
Beaver Rewilding project – NASA NASA often brags about how innovation for space travel and exploration has provided the public with all sorts of downstream benefits, but they don’t typically mean that literally. Now however, NASA is teaming up with ranchers in Idaho to monitor beaver rewilding projects on small rivers, streams, and other watersheds …
Credit – Captain Vinnie’s Boat Tour Birders attend, a rare opportunity is presenting itself along the East Coast. Hurricane Idalia may have diverted dozens of flamingos from a path between Cuba and Mexico. They are turning up along Mid-Atlantic states like North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and even Ohio, with 150 sightings already logged in birding …
credit Great Kaoala National Park Facebook Down Under, there’s a massive campaign to connect 315,000 hectares, or 750,000, acres of coastal habitat for koalas in New South Wales into a single national park. Now, a new logging ban to come into effect will protect 106 “hubs” across 8,400 hectares (21,000 acres) of forest where koalas …
Atlantic salmon in Maine – credit FWS. Maine’s rivers are the only ones left in the US where Atlantic salmon can return to spawn, and the most productive of these rivers is having one of its most productive years. After the removal of the Bangor Great Works Dam on the Penobcot River, ocean-going/river-spawning fish began …
Reconstruction of Fujianvenator prodigiosus – Credit- Zhao Chuang / SWNS China introduced many things to the world—paper, fireworks, gunpowder, zippers, but it’s also in China’s soils that the greatest scientific advancement in paleontology was discovered—that dinosaurs became birds. China has produced more feathered or gliding dinosaurs, or those that share intimate similarities with flightless birds …
3 of the 2,000 southern white rhino up for auction. credit Platinum Rhino A giant conservation NGO has purchased the largest privately-owned rhino herd on earth to rewild them in secret locations over the next 10 years. More than 2,000 white rhinos had been bred in captivity as part of a project called Platinum Rhino, …
Instituto Dom Luiz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon) While doing renovations on his property, a Portuguese man stumbled upon a fossilized sauropod that might be the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Europe. It all started in 2017. While carrying out construction work, the owner of the property in central Portugal noticed …