When European colonists first brought cattle and horses to Australia in the late 1700s, they learned a foul-smelling lesson about how useful certain species of beetles could be. As the hoofed animals ate and defecated, manure began piling up across the continent. Without any European dung beetles to break it down, the cow dung in Australia had nowhere to go.
The specimen shows that modern tuatara found in New Zealand are little changed from ancestors that lived 190 million years ago.
More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts — giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an elongated snout.
These extinct giants are among many animals immortalized in an 8-mile-long (13-kilometer-long) frieze of rock paintings at Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon rainforest — art created by some of the earliest humans to live in the region, according to a new study.
In case 2022 didn’t have enough terrible omens already, an ancient legend from Japanese culture has reared its dreaded head. The Sessho-seki killing stone, said to seal the spirit of a vengeful demon from the outside world, has split in half.
When California declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat an endangered species recently, conservationists rejoiced. The state designation seemed to promise stronger protections for the tiny, seed-munching rodent.
Before the early 1900s, if it walked like a Christmas Island rat and talked like a Christmas Island rat, it probably was a Christmas Island rat. But if one of these now-extinct rats ever walks the Earth again, it will actually be a genetically modified Norway brown rat. And the rodent won’t be as similar to the Christmas Island rat as some would hope, a new study finds
A pack of dogs have been trained to protect South Africa’s wildlife, and have already saved 45 rhinos from: being poached.
Many breeds of dog from beagles to bloodhounds have – been used to protect the endangered species from poachers. The dogs begin training from birth and learn how to handle all – the pressures of real operations before beginning to work at 18 months old.
Oldest Fossils of Egyptian Cobra Ancestors Found in Fayoum Depression
A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age
As bombs rattle their enclosures, thank heavens for the heroic keepers caring for the animals in Kyiv zoo
No Nessie yet in 2022
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