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Species counts, forest loss and the sensors watching ecosystems.
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Shark sighting leads to crowds at Busan port in South Korea
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (221+ words) SEOUL: A shark sighting in Busan on Sept 18 has put the local authorities on alert, but residents are flocking to the port to catch a glimpse of the animal rarely seen on the South Korean city’s coastline. Several videos showed…...
Will Joel Sartore Run Out of Animals to Photograph? The Photo Ark Founder Weighs In
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (95+ words) National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph all 25,000 animal species in the world’s zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. He answers subscribers’ questions about the animals he’s helped save, the equipment he uses, and what it takes to…...
Traveler describes swimming with whale sharks in the Philippines
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (265+ words) Jerusalem Post author Jacob Maor described his experience of swimming with whale sharks in Donsol Bay in the Philippines. According to him, during one of the dives, the giant animal swam about a meter beneath him, and he compared its…...
Two flowering plants added to Andaman and Nicobar’s flora
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (239+ words) Two flowering plants, one from the Nicobar Islands and the other from the Andamans, have been recorded from the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago for the first time, expanding the known plant diversity of the islands. The study has also resolved…...
A California frog is on the brink of extinction. Long Beach’s aquarium has a plan to save it
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (753+ words) Inside three water tanks in a tucked-away room at the Aquarium of the Pacific, biologists are tasked with bringing back a population of frogs that once thrived across the state’s mountainous streams but has since reached the brink of extinction....
Park rangers risk everything to save a baby elephant trapped in a watering hole
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (409+ words) Since 1977, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has been a pioneering conservation organization for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa. It is best known for its Orphans’ Project, one of the first programs to rescue and rewild orphaned elephants and rhinos....
A ground squirrel cached fruit in a Siberian riverbank about 32,000 years ago, and sediment and permafrost preserved the burrow 124 feet below today's surface. Russian researchers grew 36 plants from tissue inside three of those fruits, and the flowers opened with narrower, less dissected petals than modern plants of the same species.
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (692+ words) Scientists resurrected plants from fruit frozen for 32,000 years—and the flowers that bloomed looked strikingly different from their living descendants. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published September 18, 2026 · How we edit Sometime in the last ice age, an Arctic…...
Tiger cat named 1st new feline species in century
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (138+ words) The small spotted tiger cat lives in Bolivia’s cloud forests A team of biologists Thursday said they have identified the first new living feline species in more than 100 years: a small spotted tiger cat that lives in Bolivia’s cloud forests....
Striped hyena cub signals conservation breakthrough in Saudi Arabia
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New tiny wild cat species discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forests
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (683+ words) Researchers identified Leopardus tilcayo as a new species of tiny wild cat in Bolivia's cloud forests. Scientists say the species could face conservation threats from deforestation, fires, agriculture and mining. A small wild cat living in Bolivia's cloud forests has…...