Animals

Cub of Beloved Grizzly Killed by Car as FWS Plans to Delist Yellowstone Bear

Cub of Beloved Grizzly Killed by Car as FWS Plans to Delist Yellowstone Bear

As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposes to remove the Yellowstone area’s grizzlies from the Endangered Species List, two bears were killed on Sunday evening in separate car accidents in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. According to KTVQ, a CBS affiliate in Billings, Montana, the first bear was a female adult black bear that was […]

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    9 Super Cool Facts About Sea Turtles

    9 Super Cool Facts About Sea Turtles

    June 16 is World Sea Turtle Day and while we all know they’re pretty, that the younglings rush to the water after they hatch and that they often become victims of plastic waste, there’s so much more to these guys. Their age, anatomy and physical abilities are astonishing and undeniably justify giving these guys their […]

    Norway Kills More Whales Than Japan and Iceland Combined

    Norway Kills More Whales Than Japan and Iceland Combined

    By Animal Welfare Institute Norway is now the world’s leading whaling nation, killing more whales in the past two years than Japan and Iceland combined. A new report released Monday calls on the international community to respond to Norway’s systematic efforts to weaken management rules and improve market conditions for its whalers. Frozen in Time: […]

    House Democrats Target Trophy Hunting on Anniversary of Cecil’s Death

    House Democrats Target Trophy Hunting on Anniversary of Cecil’s Death

    By Taylor Hill It’s been nearly a year since an American hunter killed Cecil, an iconic lion in Zimbabwe. House Democrats are using the anniversary to question the premise that trophy hunting benefits Africa’s endangered wildlife. In a new report, Missing the Mark, the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Natural Resources charges that […]

    Nepal’s Extinct Bird Spotted After Disappearing for 178 Years

    Nepal’s Extinct Bird Spotted After Disappearing for 178 Years

    A team of bird-watchers stumbled upon a bird that hasn’t been seen in eastern Nepal for almost 200 years. The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) hasn’t been spotted for 178 years and was thought to be locally extinct, according to Australian Geographic. A group of ornithologists spotted the bird on a 10-day bird watching tour. Photo […]

    First Mammal Goes Extinct Due to Human-Caused Climate Change

    First Mammal Goes Extinct Due to Human-Caused Climate Change

    The Bramble Cay melomys—a rodent found only on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—has been declared extinct, according to a new study from researchers at the Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and the University of Queensland. Alarmingly, this could be the first mammal species wiped out due to human-induced climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys have vanished […]

    Chile’s Salmon Industry Using Record Levels of Antibiotics to Combat Bacterial Outbreak

    Chile’s Salmon Industry Using Record Levels of Antibiotics to Combat Bacterial Outbreak

    The Chilean salmon industry’s rampant use of antibiotics is once again under the microscope after a new report revealed that salmon producers are using record levels of the drugs to treat stocks suffering from salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS). Antibiotic use among Chilean salmon producers has skyrocketed amid a bacterial outbreak caused by piscirickettsiosis (or SRS) […]

    12 Fascinating Facts About Fireflies

    12 Fascinating Facts About Fireflies

    The flying, twinkling lights of fireflies are a mystical summer attraction. While lightning bugs are common in nature, there’s a few things you might not know about them. Here are 12 fun and interesting facts about nature’s glowing wonder: 1. They are beetles The name “firefly” is a little misleading. Fireflies are nocturnal members of […]

    World’s First ‘Spotty Dog’ and Cow-Like Sheep Created Using Gene Editing

    World’s First ‘Spotty Dog’ and Cow-Like Sheep Created Using Gene Editing

    Researchers at the state-run Xinjiang Academy of Zootechnical Science in China have bred five sheep with different coat colors using the new gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9. Researchers in #Xinjiang change #sheep colors by gene editing, known as CRISPR-Cas9 pic.twitter.com/2iz5Uhzrqr — China Xinhua News (@XHNews) June 8, 2016 According to Xinhua, two of the sheep have black […]