A new study shows that the poisonous gases coming from the ocean may have not triggered the world’s greatest mass extinction. The world lost about 90% of the ocean species and 70% of its land species 251 million years ago, when the Permian period came to an end.
Scientists suspect that the high levels of hydrogen […]
Filed under: News on March 25th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sadly, the gorilla is today one of the most endangered species. According to scientists, there are only about 50,000 gorillas left in the African wild. They are losing their habitat at an alarming rate and efforts to save these creatures are slow. The following gallery of one of the cutest baby animals, the baby gorilla, […]
Filed under: Photos on March 23rd, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A woman from Michigan was killed Thursday in the Florida Keys by a stingray that flew out of the water and struck her in the face. Judy Kay Zagorski was simply sitting in a boat, driving at 25 mph, when she spotted the stingray that jumped out of the water into her boat. According […]
Filed under: News on March 21st, 2008 | 12 Comments »
For all guinea pig lovers, some animal lovers have created a guinea pig city. There are more than 100 piglets, with their own little houses, place to roam free and play. Here is a cute overload, this time with rodents!
Filed under: Photos on March 17th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In New Zealand or any other areas for that matter, dolphins usually swim next to humans or play with each other. This time, they decided to do something different, a story that will make us smile and think about these adorable creatures.
People sawMoko, a bottlenose dolphin swim to two stranded whales and guiding them back […]
Filed under: News on March 12th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s amazing to see how baby animals are born. Here is a follow-up to the baby hippo photo gallery, this time about the birth of a baby rhinocerus, the first conceived by artificial insemination. Born in the Budapest Zoo, weighed in at 128lbs (58kg) and coming after a 16 months and 15 days pregnancy. The […]
Filed under: Caught on cam on March 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never seen so many of these little in one place at the same time. The “conference” in Chile is part of the 15 breeding sites located around Argentina and Chile, with a further 36 breeding sites in the Falkland Islands. The penguin hostspots sites are all on offshore islands, with Isla Pinguino near Puerto […]
Filed under: Photos on March 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
The country notorious for its whale hunting activies is prepared to invest up to $1.93 billion in an international fund that will encourage the use of renewable energy in developing countries. According to the Nikkei financial daily, the total fund of $4.82 billion will be made up by Japan, the United States and Britain.
Filed under: News on March 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
