WEIRD ANIMALS
The containment practices of outbreaks past could have lessons for modern epidemics The epidemic claimed the lives of some 8 million pigs by spring of 2014. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) By Katherine J. Wu, SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Apr 10 – In the spring of 2013, …
By Katie Hunt, CNN 2020 Apr 09 – Paleontologists crossing the Río Yurúa in Amazonian Perú, with the Santa Rosa fossil site in the background. – A crew of now-extinct monkeys made a treacherous transatlantic journey on a natural raft from …
By Carly Cassella 2020 Apr 08 – A global pandemic is as good a time as any to reflect on where we as humans went wrong. Human impact on animal populations worldwide is a direct contributor to zoonotic disease spread, according to a …
By Nick Lavars – A sea sponge that inhabits Manado Bay, Indonesia, may be the source of a new drug to fight cervical cancer. Samuel Chow/Creative Commons. – The natural world is a huge source of life-saving drugs, with plants and animals providing us …
By Nick Lavars – A Malayan tiger (not the individual pictured here) has tested positive for COVID-19 at Bronx Zoo. wrangel/Depositphotos. – In the first case of its kind, a four-year-old tiger at New York City’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19, the …
By Rich Haridy – Overall Winner, ‘Need to drink’, Jurug Park, Indonesia. @cymot/Agora. – Photography social network Agora’s latest contest focused on animals in wild natural environments. Indonesian photographer Wibowo Rahardjo took out the top prize with a rare look at an orangutan risking …
By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science correspondent – Image copyright Joseph Schubert Image caption Maratus azureus: It’s common for the male spiders to wave their third pair of legs in a courtship dance – OK, a lot of people don’t like arachnids. But c’mon, …
Dineobellator was a formidable predator and boasts the battle scars to prove it. Reconstruction of Dineobellator notohesperus and other dinosaurs from the Ojo Alamo Formation at the end of the Cretaceous Period in New Mexico by Sergey Krasovskiy. This reconstruction shows three Dineobellator …
But adding small amounts of land to already protected areas could help save the island’s biodiversity. The western tarsier, a rare primate species, has lost large amounts of its Borneo habitat to logging. More of that habitat is likely to disappear because of …
