We don’t really know how many lions there are — but researchers have an idea to count them
Although lions attract conservation efforts, we're not very good at counting them.
Tag: animal
Foxes living in the city are starting to become domesticated
They seem to like city life.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library made over 150,000 illustrations and 55 million pages of research free to download
I have the utmost respect for everyone who made this happen.
Meet the largest amphibian species — it’s been in a museum for 74 years
The world's museum host numerous important findings just waiting to be analyzed.
Animals can experience post-traumatic stress disorder from exposure to predators
"Our findings support both the notion that PTSD is not unnatural, and that long-lasting effects of predator-induced fear with likely ...
Birds also prefer fancier neighborhoods — as long as there’s enough green space
The "luxury effect" also propagates across animals.
The first fungi may be a billion years old
Extraordinary microfossils found in Canada could reshape our understanding of life.
Chernobyl has turned into a thriving habitat for hundreds of species
The environmental pressure generated by humans is larger than a nuclear explosion -- a revealing vision of the type of ...
Over 13 tons of pangolin scales have been seized in a single bust in Singapore
We need to save the pangolins -- and this is the first step.
Earth’s last wilderness areas may soon be lost, study warns
Things don't look good, but we can still protect what we have if we take immediate action.
Enigmatic creatures that lived 630 million years ago were animals — but not like anything we’ve seen before
To the untrained eye, they look just like plants, static and seemingly inactive. But things are not always as they ...
Study weighs environmental costs of producing animal proteins so you know what to buy
Now you know exactly what your purchases do.
Three confirmed, six suspected deaths from emerging Nipah virus in India
The WHO has previously placed this virus on its watchlist of pathogens with high "epidemic potential" and no known treatment.
10 of the Weirdest Prehistoric Creatures
Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.
Scientists say cheetahs should be on the endangered list
The range of cheetahs is becoming smaller and smaller -- as is their population.
Italian Parliament votes to ban animals from circuses
Good news from Italy!
Mice will pick social rules over might-makes-right, hinting at the birth of human societies and laws
The basis of any civilized society.
Romania bans wild animals in circuses
A solid step, though much more needs to be done.
Turns out goats and dogs aren’t that different when communicating with humans
There's a lot more going on under those horns than you'd think.
Thirty three lions rescued from South American circuses and brought to African sanctuary
Lions previously held by circuses across South America were rescued and will be flown back to Africa, where they will ...
American livestock is riddled with drugs – what’s in your meat
Photo: ecolutionist.com A report released to the public by the USDA Inspector General states that numerous beef samples were found to contain penicillin, ...
T. Rex relative had an extensive plumage – biggest feathered dinosaur ever found
A remarkable paleontological discovery surfaced from China recently, after scientists reported they've found fossils belonging to the Yutyrannus huali,a very close ...
Earliest animal with a skeleton discovered, pre-Cambrian
The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a ...
The oldest animal ever found is 760 million years old
The origins of life is one of the biggest mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel for a very long ...
3 legged serval rescued nearby Arizona desert
At a first glance, this doesn't seem like much. Just an animal rescued. But if you look more carefully, I ...
First pictures of the okapi or the African ‘unicorn’
Photo by Raul654, CC BY-SA 3.0 An African animal so rare that people used to believe it is the mythic ...
The dawn of the mamimal? MPs back creation of human-animal embryos
British scientists have received the green light to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal ...
