August 30, 2010 – 7:32 am
What happens to animals which have been removed from their natural habitat because of their status as endangered species? Well, according to TheDailyGreen.com: “Limited attempts at predator reintroduction in the United States have for the most part proven very successful. The gray wolf, extirpated by hunters in the Yellowstone region some 90 years ago, is [...]
A farmer in northern Egypt claims that his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf. He calls this a “divine miracle.” Sobhy el-Ganzoury said that it took two hours and a whole lot of pulling to deliver the rare calf; the difficult birth weakened the calf’s legs. The calf is expected to survive and [...]
Researchers were stunned last week when a gray whale was sighted in Israel. It is believed to be the first such sighting outside the Pacific Ocean in 300 years! Typically, gray whales are only found in the Pacific Ocean. After years of hunting, they vanished in the North Atlantic around the 17th or 18th centuries. [...]
In Europe, the recent volcanic ash danger travels at high altitudes, but for Iceland’s farmers the problem is otherwise, which is to say very much on the ground. Farmers across the region where the volcano erupted under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier have been scrambling to protect their herds from ingesting or inhaling the ash, which can [...]
Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now it has come to issuing death sentences to chronic offenders. A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized [...]
February 28, 2010 – 11:40 am
A veteran SeaWorld trainer was leisurely rubbing Tilikum the killer whale from a poolside platform when the 12,000-pound creature shot up, grabbed her ponytail in its mouth and dragged her down underwater. Horrified visitors who had stuck around after a noontime show watched the animal charge through the pool with the trainer in its jaws. [...]
January 17, 2010 – 2:45 pm
Tell your local farming buddies… The group of scientists who sequenced the genomes of three different minute wasp species, say that their work has proven that the bees have qualities, useful for both pest control and medicine. They could even improve understanding of genetics and evolution. The tiny insects lay their eggs inside larger hosts, [...]
January 7, 2010 – 7:36 pm
Scientists in Poland have discovered fossilized footprints of tetrapods which roamed a muddy basin in what is now southeastern Poland, 397 million years ago. Tetrapod species are four-legged animals that had backbones, such as amphibians. The significance of this discovery is the shift in the timing of transition from our fish-like ancestors to land creatures. [...]
January 3, 2010 – 8:55 am
Japanese scientists have developed goldfish whose beating hearts can be seen through their translucent scales and skin. The developing of transparent creatures, such as the new goldfish and the frogs which were developed in 2007, are part of efforts to reduce the need for dissections. Associate Professor in the department of Life Science at Mie [...]
November 27, 2009 – 4:43 pm
In 2008 Vladimir Putin shot a five-year-old female tiger with a tranquilizer gun and helped put a transmitter around her neck. The transmitter allowed people to follow the animal’s perusing through Russia’s Far East. On Wednesday Vladimir Krever of the World Wildlife Fund said that the satellite tracking devise has been silent since mid-September; which [...]
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