Armed with a spear and an underwater camera, Nate Sorensen has made hunting invasive lionfish a social media hit. His viral videos document a growing effort to combat a predator threatening Florida’s coral reefs — one fish at a time. #calltoearth
ABC News' Danny New has the story of a humpback whale that's swimming dozens of miles from the Pacific Ocean.
A tiny two-headed diamondback terrapin, weighing just 5.2 grams, turned up at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is now under veterinary watch at a Cape Cod wildlife center. The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable shared a photo of the bicephalic hatchling on Facebook Thursday, drawing immediate attention to what the center called […] The post Two-headed turtle hatchling discovered at Cape Cod nesting site appeared first on American Almanac .
A tiny two-headed diamondback terrapin, weighing just 5.2 grams, turned up at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is now under veterinary watch at a Cape Cod wildlife center. The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable shared a photo of the bicephalic hatchling on Facebook Thursday, drawing immediate attention to what the center called an uncommon but not unprecedented find. The baby terrapin has two fully formed heads and, according to the veterinary team, both sides appear healthy and functional so far. Diamondback terrapins are classified as a threatened species in Massachusetts, which makes the discovery at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet, a small town on the outer arm of Cape Cod, all the more notable for the…Open
Emergency services are responding to a suspected fatal shark attack off a beach in the Australian west coast city of Perth
Denver Museum of Nature & Science research associate Kent Hups discusses his discovery of T. rex footprints in the Badlands.
The teens reported feeling less anxious, sad and lonely and more calm after interacting with the equines.
The Philadelphia pigeon tour was intended to be a one-time event, but demand has kept it going, despite a few pigeon poop mishaps.
Kent Hups, a high school science teacher in Colorado, discovered a 23-foot trackway of fossilized dinosaur footprints, which offer a glimpse of how the apex predator moved 66 million years ago.
Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.
Chimpanzees nursing wounds, ants performing amputations on nestmates, a growing body of research into animal self-medication suggests the natural world has been practicing medicine far longer than we have, and researchers believe it could reshape how humans discover new treatments. NPR's Short Wave podcast devoted a recent episode to the phenomenon, bringing on freelance science […] The post Animals have been treating their own injuries for decades — and scientists say humans should pay attention appeared first on American Almanac .
Chimpanzees nursing wounds, ants performing amputations on nestmates, a growing body of research into animal self-medication suggests the natural world has been practicing medicine far longer than we have, and researchers believe it could reshape how humans discover new treatments. NPR's Short Wave podcast devoted a recent episode to the phenomenon, bringing on freelance science journalist Mandy Nguyen to walk through what scientists have learned since Western researchers first started documenting the behavior in the late 1980s. The episode, published September 11, traces a line from early observations of chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to more recent discoveries, including ants that appear to amputate the injured…Open