From a blind salamander to a tap-dancing spider, scientists have revealed a new list of the ’25 most wanted lost species’ around the world.
Drawn up by Austin, Texas-based organisation Re:wild, the list sheds light on global species that are evading detection – and could possibly be extinct.
Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
First they were hit by claims they planned to cull wallabies on the Scottish island they are buying, triggering uproar.
Now the broadcaster Kirsty Young and her husband, the Soho House founder Nick Jones, have been hit by another hurdle: a formal objection from the Woodland Trust against their plans to chop down scores of trees on Inchconnachan, an idyllic, heavily wooded island on Loch Lomond.
The couple’s quest to restore Inchconnachan, owned until now by the same aristocratic Scottish family for more than 700 years, to its wild, natural beauty is under fire from a host of influential critics.
A successful pregnancy for Elizabeth Ann may help ensure her species avoids extinction.
A new study looked at a well-preserved fossil of an Ichthyornis that lived about 70 million years ago. The scientists compared the brain of the ancient bird to that of modern birds. Modern birds’ brains are structurally different, which might have allowed them to survive the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs
Kurt Zouma has been slapped with a huge fine over the vile abuse of his cat with West Ham donating two weeks worth of his wages to animal charities as his pets are seized by the RSPCA
A Great White Shark is believed to have been near a popular tourist beach in at Goring-by-Sea, near Worthing, West Sussex after being spotted by a beachgoer on camera
London’s ‘biggest dog’ is 6ft and weighs 15st – but often gets mistaken for cow
“There is a great deal of debate among writers with regards to dragons: do animals of this sort actually exist in nature, or, as is often the case in many other things, can they only be found in fables?”
These words come from the 17th century German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher and his 1638 book Mundus subterraneus (Subterranean World) which argued not only that the Earth is hollow, but that it’s inhabited by dragons which he believed were extremely rare, but nevertheless natural animals. Kircher’s inquiry into the putative reality of dragons is a major theme throughout The Penguin Book of Dragons (2021), edited by historian Scott G. Bruce of Fordham University.
Wild animals prized as delicacies in China contain a bevy of threatening viruses
In Southwestern Germany, a team of researchers discovered teeth that were millions of years old and presumably belonged to an ancient Euro-Asian primate last September. Yet after the discovery was made public, controversy opened up about the interpretation of our earliest existence
Fishermen regret falling asleep as aggressive crocodile sneaks onto their boat