SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 19, 2009 (ENS) - National Park Service officials in California are about to decide how to kill non-native trout to save critically endangered native yellow-legged frogs. How to eradicate the trout has generated a controversy among environmental groups. The nonprofit organization Save The Frogs, based in Virginia, is urging the National Park Service to quickly remove...
It wasn't long ago that people thought this fish had been extinct for 80 million years. The fish is living in Indonesian waters and it's not alone. What a cool discovery.
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Emperor Penguins / Photo by lin padgham Bird and birding news A study of the fossil record argues that there were six genera and nine species of moas (much lower than other estimates) and that the North and South Islands of New Zealand have been geographically isolated for 20-30 million years. The Puerto Rican Nightjar's range is much than previously estimated ; in all this species has 1,400-2,000...
Today's stops on the WBBT are as follows: Illustrator Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast in another of the gobsmackingly gorgeous posts we've all come to expect from Jules and Eisha. This one is chock full of Jim's original art, including a few of his co-productions with his lovely and talented wife, Laini Taylor, who is interviewed by Kerry at Shelf Elf today (see below): Art...
I just guested over at The Film Experience doing a piece on one of my favourite films from 2001, Dancing at the Blue Iguana . Read it by clicking here . It stars one of the most fascinating trios of women - Daryl Hannah, Sandra Oh and Jennifer Tilly as strippers in Michael Radford's improvised film. It's not a classic film by any stretch, but it's a wonderful actressexual experience and its representation...
Glenn from Stale Popcorn here to throw in two cents worth of discussion about the year 2001 per Nathaniel's request. Last week for the year 2000 I discussed a favourite from that year that I felt had been criminally underrated. At least a lot of people have seen that movie for it to be underrated. The 2001 film that I want to shine a light on has been seen by about three people (and a goat). If you...
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Astonishing - the Japanese government admits to having hoarded some 25,000 tonnes of tuna, thus "there is no reason to fear tuna prices will spike or that the inventories of tuna will run out," the minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries said at a news conference, according to Kyodo News . Hirotaka Akamatsu inherited this problem - and the inventory - from the LDP government, but...
Japanese and Indonesian researchers filmed this rare footage of a “prehistoric” fish: The creature was found on October 6 at a depth of 161 metres (528 feet) in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, where the Indonesian coelacanth was first discovered, according to the researchers. Video footage showed the 31.5 centimetre (12.6-inch) coelacanth, coloured blue with white spots, [...]
DNA confirms discovery of Siamese crocodiles to give new hope for breeding programme Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight – at a wildlife rescue centre in Cambodia. DNA from 69 crocodiles housed in the moats of Phnom Tamao centre showed nearly half were Siamese crocodiles, Crocodylus...
Discovered only in 1992 by wildlife biologists, saolas are antelope-like bovine creatures who live in the forests on the border of Laos and Vietnam. They...
Jonathan Woodliff in the Jakarta Post : With only 19 days to go before the critical UN climate summit in Copenhagen, environmental activists are right to be highlighting Indonesia's unenviable position as one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases. There is no doubt that long term abuse and mismanagement of the nation's forests is the main cause, which is why Greenpeace set up a "Climate...
If someone decided to do a list of innovative magazine lists, it probably wouldn't include Time magazine's "50 Best Innovations" list. The new one's out, and we've sub-selected some of the good items for you. But a broad swath of the selections are either too intentionally odd, fumbled, or just wrong. We're just, saying... you know? Philips LED Light Bulb This should really have been number...
Dr. Wynne Collins didn't set out to save the Przewalski's horse—declared extinct in the wild 40 years ago. But today, as a doctoral student at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, Collins works hard to preserve the world's last truly wild horse. Her early research efforts were funded, in part, by one of Morris Animal Foundation's (MAF) first Fellowship...
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hi, i live in America, california my science teacher gave my class an assignment.
It was to choose an animal on the list of endangered animals and...
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