This little guy is Pierre, an African penguin living at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences.
He’s 25 years old, pretty hoary for a penguin, and is unfortunately starting to go bald around the tushie.
Penguins don’t have blubber and need their feathers to keep warm, so instead of sitting around watching Pierre shiver after every swim, biologists […]
How often do you hear about a hospital being forced to evacuate patients and close its doors?
Now how often do you hear about a hospital evacuating patients and locking up because it was invaded by an army of lethally poisonous spiders?
The Baralaba Hospital in Australia’s Queensland state was declared too dangerous by officials because of […]
A series of strange, unsolved killings of wild brown donkeys in Cyprus have pushed hundreds of young Cypriots, both Turkish and Greek, to start an online movement to save the rare species.
Using Facebook and email, as well as more traditional methods such as banners erected near the Rizokarpaso donkey sanctuary (yes, they really have one […]
Pictured above is a Swinhoe’s soft-shelled turtle, the largest freshwater turtle in the world. Only three are currently in captivity, and none were thought to exist in the wild until the news broke out that researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Asian Turtle Program found and shot video footage of a live specimen in a […]
Hats off to Laika: intrepid space explorer and science subject, dutiful citizen to the motherland, first mammal in space. That’s a pretty long way for a stray mutt to come.
50 years later, Russia is commemorating the pioneering pooch with a statue in her honor at a military research unit near Moscow.
There’s an “early bird” reference here somewhere.
It seems that the European cuckoo is the latest victim of global warming, with populations dropping by 25 percent in recent years.
According to scientists, one explanation seems to be that the cuckoo’s host birds, such as reed warblers and dunnocks, have started breeding earlier in the year due to […]