WEIRD ANIMALS
Recognition as ‘interested persons’ is a legal first in the US, allowing animals to have their interests heard in court. Hippos in the lake on the former private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP – Associated Press First published on …
Rescue centers say they are seeing more and more pets their owners are now too busy to look after. Charities say owners are turning up with their dogs after failing to sell them, claiming they are strays. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images – By …
Deer cross roads whenever they wish, but some time periods are higher risk than others. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images – By Tom Langen, Professor of Biology, Clarkson University 2021 Sep 21 – Autumn is here starting Wednesday, and that means the risk …
A close-up of the head of a leafcutter ant, Atta cephalotes, showing the metal-infused teeth on its mandibles. Ryan Garrett, CC BY-ND – By Robert Schofield, Research Professor in Physics, University of Oregon 2021 Sep 01 The Research Brief is a short take …
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at El Mansoura, university works on renovating the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale called “Phiomicetus Anubis”, that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea, which were discovered in the Fayum Depression …
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images – By Elizabeth Yuko 2021 Aug 22 – Felines served a useful purpose in ancient Egyptian households and were eventually associated with deities. Along with hieroglyphics, obelisks and geometric patterns, cats feature prominently in ancient Egyptian art, reflecting …
Some who stop eating meat continue eating fish in the belief that it’s good for them and that fishing is less cruel and destructive than farming – nothing could be further from the truth. While fish continues to be labelled a health food …
Archaeologist and paleoenvironmental researcher Isaac Hart of the University of Utah surveys a melting ice patch in western Mongolia. Peter Bittner, CC BY-ND – William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder 2021 Aug 11 – In the world’s …
Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet – Animal farming is one of the activities producing methane, which has a warming potential more that 80 times that of CO2. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters …
What are you looking at? Greg Shine, BLM/Flickr, CC BY – Authors Jeremy Dertien, PhD Candidate in Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University Courtney Larson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming Sarah Reed, Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State …
