In late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in dairy cattle. Initially discovered in dairy farms in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, there are now 36 confirmed outbreaks in dairy herds in nine states. Although the H5N1 virus circulates widely in wild birds, it is now …
Some of the lemurs after they were rescued – credit Wildlife Justice Commission Released In a pair of busts that will end up costing criminals millions, Thai police raided a suspected wildlife smuggling site and saved hundreds of animals. 48 lemurs, 30 primates of various species, several crocodiles, and over 1,000 rare tortoises were seized …
Carrie Clark, at the moment she reunited with Galena the cat – Courtesy Carrie Clark A Utah housecat was reunited with its parents recently after a nap in her favorite hiding place turned into a 6-day nightmare. Galena the calico was accidentally shipped—in the box she had snuck into—all the way to a fulfillment center …
Credit Michael Sanchez – fair use. Owing to personal interest, GNN is partial to stories of rare bird sightings, and news from Oregon recently broke the story of a ‘mega-rare’ bird never seen before in either the state or the country. It wasn’t made by a birder, but rather an ordinary talented photographer named Michael …
credit – Scott Pearson, released and Lida Xing, et al. An apex predator can be any size really, from the raccoon-sized quolls of Australia to the Bengal tiger: and this is exactly the sort of insight that scientists have just gleaned from a giant dinosaur footprint found in China. The reason it’s giant is not …
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Jeremy Miller, bioGraphic The forest ranger had a troubled look on his face. It was the summer of 2022 and my kids and I were trudging up a steep trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, near Denver, when we encountered him. He stood amid a small grove of subalpine fir, clutching a walkie-talkie tightly in …
One of the whales the researchers spotted. Credit Jeremy J. Kiszka. Florida International University. The Seychelles has become a major tourist destination for beachgoing and scuba diving, but it’s not only humans that are beginning to flock to this island. In what marine biologists have described as a “phenomenal finding,” a survey of whales around …
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Brian Handwerk Science Correspondent This spring, cicadas are buzzing across the Southeast and Midwest, thanks to the simultaneous emergence of two major broods. Their 17-year and 13-year cycles are coinciding for the first time since 1803—when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. The result is expected to be more than one trillion cicadas singing …
Bob Dunlop via SWNS A wildlife fan has struck up an extraordinary friendship with a young fox after he noticed she was ill. Bob Dunlop realized the fox had developed mange on her tail after spying her lack of hair on wildlife cameras set up near his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire. The 69-year-old worked out …
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 …