Florida waters – More than 20 rehabilitated manatees returned to their natural habitat earlier this week, including three females that had called the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden home during a critical recovery phase. Orphans to Ocean Giants: Remarkable Turnarounds Orphans to Ocean Giants: Remarkable Turnarounds (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Rescued as vulnerable calves suffering from ...
Prince Edward Islands, South Africa — Southern elephant seals breeding on Marion and Prince Edward Islands have transitioned from near threatened to least concern status, highlighting effective local protections in a remote sub-Antarctic setting. A Striking Population Rebound A Striking Population Rebound (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Researchers counted nearly 1,400 pups on the islands in 2023, ...
Hoja Blanco, Ecuador — Expanding road networks in the northwestern Chocó rainforest have transformed remote wilderness into accessible frontiers, altering habitats for species that once thrived in isolation. Loggers Paved the Initial Paths Loggers Paved the Initial Paths (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Timber companies first breached the dense canopy during the 1980s and 1990s. Firms like ...
Portland, Maine — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drew immediate fire from environmental advocates after signaling plans to revise a vital vessel speed rule aimed at shielding the North Atlantic right whale from extinction. A Tragic Loss Highlights the Stakes A Tragic Loss Highlights the Stakes (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Confirmation of a young female ...
Long-finned pilot whales in the North Atlantic now harbor markedly lower levels of certain persistent industrial chemicals, demonstrating the delayed but real effects of production phaseouts initiated two decades ago. Decline Uncovered Through Innovative Analysis Decline Uncovered Through Innovative Analysis (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Researchers at Harvard University revealed a significant drop in PFAS concentrations by ...
Indonesia – Wildlife researchers have challenged long-held assumptions about the economic role of the country’s legal freshwater turtle trade, finding it sustains only a tiny fraction of collectors amid declining populations. Ancient Survivors Under Siege Ancient Survivors Under Siege (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Turtles boast an evolutionary legacy spanning over 200 million years, enduring cataclysmic events ...
There’s something almost humbling about realizing that the dinosaurs you grew up with – the big, scaly, gray-green monsters stomping around in movies and on museum posters – were probably never quite real. Not in any accurate scientific sense. The images that shaped a generation’s understanding of these extraordinary animals were built mostly on guesswork, ...
When most people picture a dinosaur, they imagine something enormous, lumbering, and about as sharp as a boulder. You know the image: squinting little eyes, no expression, mindlessly stomping through prehistoric ferns. Honestly, it’s an image that science has been quietly dismantling for decades now, and the pace of those revelations has picked up dramatically ...
When you picture a plant-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous, you probably imagine a slow, lumbering giant trudging through a prehistoric jungle, blindly munching on anything green within reach. Honest moment here – that image is satisfying, but it is also wildly incomplete. The herbivores of the Cretaceous were far more sophisticated, resourceful, and ecologically nimble ...
Imagine being able to read the life story of a creature that vanished from the earth over 66 million years ago, not from its bones, but from the literal footprints it left behind. That sounds like science fiction. Honestly, it almost is. Yet that is exactly what paleontologists have been doing for decades, peeling back ...
