New and Rediscovered

Perched on the northeastern coast of Africa, the tiny country of Djibouti is a place of extremes. Rugged mountains soar to the north, while near the coastline a saline lake sinks more than 500 feet below sea level. Desert claims 90 percent of the country’s arid landscape, while the majority of residents live clustered in dense urban areas around the capital city.

What Djibouti doesn’t have, anymore, are wild cheetahs. Sightings of the cats haven’t been confirmed for more than three decades — until recently. Wildlife professor Mark Chynoweth, from the Quinney College of Natural Resources, was a leader of a survey team that captured the first images of a cheetah in the country since 1997.

New Indian snake

Earless dragon rediscovered

Ivory-billed woodpeckers

Rare cat discovered on Mt Everest

Wild black dogs in Papua

A SPECIES OF MAMMAL NEW TO BRITAIN DISCOVERED

A bone eating worm

Ivory-bill woodpecker not extinct?

A new species of giant tortoise has been discovered in the Galapagos after DNA testing found animals living on one island had not yet been recorded, Ecuador’s environment ministry said.