You can find life in the tiniest, most remote places. We’re not going to be referring to other planets, but to a very special lightbulb that is home to a small plant. How was this possible? With the proper environment, seeds and proper watering, you’ll have the plant growing in no time. Here is one […]
Filed under: Caught on cam on May 19th, 2008 | 20 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 »
According to researchers, the oldest known bird fossils from New Zealand were recently unearthed from an isolated stretch of beach on the Chatham Islands.
The fossils represent possibly four new species of seabirds dating back to the late Cretaceous period, around 65 million years ago.
Filed under: Caught on cam, News on February 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently came across this heartbreaking picture of a dog tied around its mouth and thrown away with the garbage. I am left wondering why do some people keep a dog if they are not able to properly take care of it. After all, the dog is man’s best friend and this certainly is no […]
Filed under: Be involved, Caught on cam on January 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Birds are clever, but not many of us know that. Here’s a quick excerpt from a documentary depicting how birds get around. The brain of a bird weighs about 10 times as much as a brain of a reptile of the same weight, but slightly less than that of a mammal of the same weight. […]
Filed under: Caught on cam on December 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
Look closely and you might spot it! Octopuses are the animals with some of the most clever camouflage mechanisms. They remain hidden, carefully blending in with the surrounding environment, until they are discovered. When caught, they eject a thick blackish ink in a large cloud that helps them flee predators. When under attack, some octopuses […]
Filed under: Caught on cam on December 10th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Pigments are the chemicals in our bodies that give us our colors. When a bird or other animal makes no pigments, the condition is called albinism, the animal being called an albino. Here is a collection of albino baby animals, probably one of the cutest galleries yet.
Filed under: Be involved, Caught on cam on December 4th, 2007 | 23 Comments »
The female hippo reaches sexual maturity at 5 to 6 years of age, carrying the baby for 8 months. When the time comes for the baby to come out, the female hippo isolates herself from the herd, for anywhere from 10 to 44 days. The magic happens underwater and the baby is born alive. The […]
Filed under: Caught on cam, Documentary, Photos on November 23rd, 2007 | 6 Comments »
