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 [...]
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 [...]
October 22, 2009 – 4:31 pm
I found this list floating around that was just too…unique to pass up. Recommended foods to eat “just once before you die”, or in my words, to serve to your loved on as a once-in-a-lifetime gift. “Just once,” probably because they are unavailable in your local Winn Dixie, America’s supermarket every day, or whatever the [...]
September 11, 2009 – 12:25 am
32.2 inches from nose to tail and weighing around three and a half pounds. That’s almost a yard long. 10 of those and you’ve almost got yourself a fist down. The discovery was made by a team from the BBC Natural History Unit inside the crater of Mount Bosavi, which is an extinct volcano. “This [...]
August 31, 2009 – 3:44 pm
Backpackers are known to have short budgets on road trips, but this is something new. It’s actually becoming trendy for European backpackers to visit farms on their journey, shovel manure, feed animals, and make butter thanks to Worldwird Opportunities on Organic Farms, a site that networks travelers with organic farms that need volunteers, is a [...]
August 12, 2009 – 1:25 pm
An area stretching across Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, and China is home to 350 previously unknown species discovered in the past 10 years. One of those is a 100 million year old gecko, the oldest species of gecko ever discovered, that predates the mass extinction of the dinosaurs by 35 million years. Along with [...]
January 11, 2009 – 10:13 am
Paleontologist Peter Ward argues that plants and bacteria have almost extinguished all life on Earth several times in the past. In Ward’s view, the earth’s history makes clear that, left to run its course, life isn’t naturally nourishing – it’s poisonous. Rather than a supple system of checks and balances, he argues, the natural world [...]
December 2, 2008 – 1:22 pm
Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. With profound patience and an unswerving commitment to the expressive and artistic nature of animals, he has captured extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. Since its debut in Venice in 2002, over [...]
With all the recent attention being given to the topic of global warming, very little attention is being given to something that in the long run may be even more serious to plant and animal life on Planet Earth. And that warning is the exact opposite of global cooling. Global cooling? With the earth’s arctic [...]
