WEIRD ANIMALS
The animal trekked an average of 28 miles per day, covering a distance of 2,175 miles during her journey from Spitsbergen to Ellesmere Island. The little fox that could (Elise Stromseng/Norwegian Polar Institute) – By Meilan Solly, SmithsonianMag.Com – On March 26, 2018, …
Pride of eight lions photographed snoozing on tarmac in Kruger National Park Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage – By Helen Sullivan, @helenrsullivan 2020 Apr 16 – Last modified on Fri 2020 Apr 17 – 07.56 EDT – This lion …
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, …
Costa’s Hummingbirds are frequent visitors at feeders in Arizona and southern California. Julian Avery, CC BY-ND. By Julian Avery, Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Pennsylvania State University – Millions of Americans enjoy feeding and watching backyard birds. Many people make …
