Chris Packham meets crown estate to promote rewilding royal land
Chris Packham and a campaign to “rewild the royals” have had a “really good” meeting with the crown estate to ask it to consider pledging a slice of its 615,000 acres to wild nature.
Chris Packham and a campaign to “rewild the royals” have had a “really good” meeting with the crown estate to ask it to consider pledging a slice of its 615,000 acres to wild nature.
For the first time ever, scientists have been able to record information about the migration of Australia’s short-finned eels.
A video taken in a rural part of Northumberland appears to show a large black cat walking across a farmer’s field – in broad daylight.
The footage was taken in the remote Allen Valleys by a worker who wishes to remain anonymous – but said it “had to be bigger” than a normal cat after spotting it from around 40 metres away.
Outrage was sparked in Iran after the government proposed a law in November that would ban pets in the country.
The law, named Protection of the Public’s Rights Against Animals, was proposed by 75 hardliner legislators and introduced in November, described people living with animals as a “destructive social problem,” and bans “importing, raising, assisting in the breeding of, breeding, buying or selling, transporting, driving or walking, and keeping in the home wild, exotic, harmful and dangerous animals,” according to AFP. However, the definition of “harmful and dangerous animals” does not strictly cover animals typically deemed as such.
Fossil discovery shows some Australian ‘thunder birds’ had painful bone infection before species went extinct
Key points:
What caused the demise of the thunder bird isn’t entirely settled
Analysis of fossils found in South Australia has revealed some of the birds had a bone disease
Scientists found the dating of the fossil site coincided with severe drought
This mihirung paringmal (giant bird), sometimes called a “thunder bird” (Genyoris newtoni), weighed five to six times that of an emu, was 2 metres tall, and had a huge beak.
London mayor releases £600,000 funding to help create green rooftops and reintroduce lost species.
A blood sample believed to be the oldest in the world has been found in an ancient mummified foal, boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.
A colossal sunfish, possibly one of the largest on record, swam by a pair of paddleboarders in Laguna Beach, California, who “spent a good 30 minutes with the fish before it sank back down,” they told Live Science.
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Durban – KwaZulu-Natal’s oldest crocodile, Henry, will celebrate his 121st birthday on Thursday this week.
Henry is Crocworld’s oldest crock and the oldest known crocodile in captivity. Measuring in at 5-metres in length and 750kg in weight, Henry’s birthday feed is not one to be missed.
Baby octopuses grow hundreds of temporary organs, then lose them without a trace