It’s National Park Week — and from Yellowstone National Park to Jackson Hole, wildlife in the Rocky Mountain West is an American treasure, which is why visitors flock to see it. Park goers are bound to view some amazing animals during their
A dentist visiting their parents at their newly-renovated home made an incredible discovery. The profession of Reddit user Kidipadeli75 surely helped them notice a detail in a freshly laid down tile – a jawbone. The Redditor wrote on the subreddit dedicated to
On a West Virginia trail in the Allegheny mountains, an elusive rodent considered to be a “sensitive species,” was spotted. Officials of Monongahela National Forest, a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, posted a video on Facebook last week
The green anaconda, an aquatic snake often found in South America’s Amazon region, is the largest of its kind — measuring nearly 21 feet in length, according to experts. Now, the snake behemoth has been identified as two separate species — the
A stingray at Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina, is pregnant without any mates in sight. The female ray, named Charlotte, has become an aquatic enigma, as the public questions whether her pregnancy was caused by a
Previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins have been spotted in new satellite imagery. Emperor penguins, considered “near threatened” with extinction, are the world’s largest penguins. They raise their chicks in Antarctic winter on patches of frozen sea ice. But if the ice
The largest zoo in Georgia is working hard to help conserve one of the world’s rarest lizard species. Zoo Atlanta sent 11 endangered Guatemalan beaded lizards (Heloderma charlesbogerti) to La Aurora Zoo in Guatemala City on Jan. 10. The lizards hatched at
An invasive species of mink has been wiped out by luring them into cages using scent from their own glands. Over the past four years, the Waterlife Recovery Trust maintained a defensive wall of traps, cutting off East Anglia. Once caught they
An orchid species saved by a rare bird is among scientists’ top picks of plant and fungal species named last year. The newly described flower called Aeranthes bigibbum is the perfect example of how implementing protective measures for one species can help
Tregothnan, at Tresillian in Cornwall, completed its annual count on New Year’s Day and was surprised at the figures. Head gardener Neil Bennett, 53, also found 51 camellia sasanquas plus the 24 varieties of tea that make the site Europe’s largest tea