A TEAM of experts are set to patrol the UK’s seas for great white sharks after one was reportedly spotted close to a popular tourist beach.
Scientists from Ocearch are planning the expedition for September 2022, hoping to prove that great white sharks frequent British waters after the potential sighting at Goring-by-Sea in West Sussex.
This cute little pup is the first giant anteater to be born at Dudley Zoo, in Birmingham, for 85 years!
The baby – who doesn’t have a name yet – was born on 17 January and keepers say it is “healthy and alert”.
Its parents Lyra and Bubbles surprised keepers when they found out they had had a baby, but said it was “fabulous news”.
Paignton Zoo in Devon, is the latest organisation to team up with a charity, called Nature’s Safe, which cryogenically freezes genetic samples of animals.
So far, the charity has made a ‘biobank’ of frozen samples from around 80 different species at its laboratories.
Nature’s Safe is one of Europe’s first biobanks dedicated to preserving endangered animals in this way.
Chester Zoo, along with scientists at the University of Surrey, are starting a world first vaccine trial that could save the lives of many poorly young elephants!
The vaccine is designed to protect against a deadly disease called elephant endotheliotrophic herpes virus (EEHV) which affects some elephant calves.
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LETHBRIDGE, AB – A local mining company has made not one, but two pre-historic discoveries.
Enchanted Designs, an ammolite mining and jewelry company, was working in an area south of Lethbridge on January 26 when they found something out of the ordinary.
Joe Sanchez, Head Technician at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, says the crew uncovered part of the skull and shoulder girdle of a mosasaur, a large marine reptile that lived during the late Cretaceous period 145.5 million to 65 million years ago.
LiveScience.com describes mosasaurs as the “apex ocean predator of the dinosaur age.”
Experts have said a British veteran who was killed by a great white shark could have been mistaken for a seal after it was revealed that he liked to wear wetsuits while swimming
Some are said to be “as big as cats” and now experts are warning people to rat-proof their houses before they invade.
Pest control expert Ian Helands warned: “I have had more call-outs than ever from homeowners who have heard a noise, looked down into their toilet only to find a giant rat.
“No-one is safe. Rats are excellent swimmers with bendy bones and can squeeze into the smallest of spaces.
A new study revealed that Portugal was once home to a huge 33ft-long dinosaur that may be a new species of a spinosaurus. A reanalysis of its fossils showed a crocodile-like skull and spiny back. It likely roamed the Earth about 130 million years ago.
Initial studies suggested that the fossils belonged to Baryonyx walkeri, but the reanalysis said otherwise. The team has renamed the new species of spinosaurus Iberospinus natarioi. The team considered it one of the most complete specimens of spinosaurus they found, says Professor Octavio Mateus of the NOVA School of Science and Technology.
Meet the Akhal-Teke, an endearing species that is dubbed as the “world’s most beautiful horse”, aka the “golden horse”.Originated from Turkmenistan, the Akhal-Teke is famous worldwide thanks to its glossy metallic sheen that can reflect and refract light just like how metal does.
Life is about to radically change for Ron and Debi MacKenzie, who run leisure cruises on Loch Ness, after they put their business up for sale.
KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—A “mermaid mummy” kept at a temple has been an object of worship, the stuff of nightmares and a source of mystery for hundreds of years.
Now, for the first time, a project has started to scientifically analyze the mummified creature, which has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish.
The researchers from the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts here and other organizations plan to announce their findings around autumn.