- New Species
New Monkey Discovered
Although the Burmese snub-nosed monkey was unknown to science until an expedition turned up conclusive evidence earlier this year, local hunters in the remote and mountainous area of Burma where…
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Melting Ice Maroons Walruses
The volume of arctic sea ice currently stands at its third lowest level in recorded history. As a result, walruses in northwest Alaska, which normally ride floating sea ice along…
Read More » - Endangered Species
Tortoise Helping a Buddy?
We found this video on another nature website, and the person who posted it seemed to be claiming that it represented an example of altruism in a reptile species. An…
Read More » - Wildlife Art
The Earliest Wildlife Art
Cave Paintings, And What They Mean To Us It was not that long ago that wildlife meant everything to mankind. All humans sustained themselves by hunting animals, catching fish and…
Read More » - Amazon Wildlife
Angel Catches Giant GoldFish
It may look like an impressive catch, but it’s also a troubling one. The 30-year-old recreational fisherman in the photo, Rafael Biagini, said that the huge goldfish he is holding…
Read More » - Monkeys
Moonlight Monkeys
The ‘night monkeys’ of Central and South America are unique among anthropoids, which are the most highly evolved groups of primates, and include monkeys, apes and humans. As their name…
Read More » - African Wildlife
Ants Versus Elephants
It is a fairly perfect example of what scientists call symbiosis: A species of acacia tree on the plains of East Africa provides shelter and food to a species of…
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