San Mateo del Mar, Mexico — Relentless waves from the Pacific have eroded the shores of Cuauhtémoc, forcing the Indigenous Ikoots community to plan a full relocation from their ancestral fishing grounds. The Sea’s Steady Advance The Sea’s Steady Advance (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Coastal erosion has claimed significant land in Cuauhtémoc over decades. Measurements showed ...
Florida – Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have introduced a patent-pending device using zinc and graphite that generates a subtle electric field to repel sharks from longline fishing hooks. Bycatch Pushes Sharks Toward Extinction Bycatch Pushes Sharks Toward Extinction (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Commercial fisheries targeting tuna and swordfish often ensnare sharks unintentionally, contributing to the ...
São Mateus, Portugal – A veteran fisher hauled his vessel ashore amid winter swells, voicing unease over sweeping marine safeguards reshaping the waters around this North Atlantic archipelago. Landmark MPA Network Shields Biodiversity Hotspot Landmark MPA Network Shields Biodiversity Hotspot (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) The Azores unveiled its Marine Protected Areas Network in late 2024, a ...
Monte León National Park, Argentine Patagonia – Pumas reclaimed their territory and preyed heavily on Magellanic penguin colonies, leaving researchers to assess the ecological fallout. Pumas Stage a Comeback After Decades of Absence Cattle farming dominated southern Argentina throughout the 20th century and displaced pumas from vast areas of their historic range. Farmers viewed the ...
Picture a creature that weighed roughly as much as a modern school bus, carried three formidable horns on its face, and somehow survived in a world shared with the ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex. The Triceratops was a massive, three-horned giant of the Late Cretaceous, whose towering frill, powerful horns, and beak-lined jaws made it one of ...
There is something deeply fascinating about a creature that no longer walks the earth, yet somehow continues to reshape science, medicine, and our understanding of life itself. Extinction, we often assume, is the end of the story. A full stop. Game over. Yet the survival strategies these species evolved over millions of years didn’t vanish ...
There is something quietly humbling about standing in a natural history museum, looking up at a towering skeleton, and wondering what kind of world that creature actually lived in. Not just what it looked like, but what the air felt like, how dense the forests were, how hot the sun burned. Because here’s the thing: ...
Dinosaurs get all the glory. You’ve seen them on the big screen, in museums, on your kids’ lunch boxes. Yet Earth’s prehistoric past is packed with creatures so bizarre, so utterly mind-bending, that even the most creative science fiction writer might struggle to dream them up. We’re talking about animals that looked like evolutionary pranks, ...
Dinosaurs have never stopped surprising us. Just when you think science has mapped out the ancient world well enough, a single bone jutting from a hillside in Montana or a chunk of rock in the Gobi Desert upends decades of accepted knowledge. It’s almost humbling, honestly. Entire chapters of textbooks become obsolete overnight. What’s remarkable ...
Close your eyes and picture a Tyrannosaurus rex. Chances are, you’re imagining something brownish, grayish, or maybe a swampy shade of green. That’s what Hollywood gave us. That’s what decades of museum illustrations told us. For most of paleontology’s history, dinosaur color was considered permanently unknowable – a question for artists, not scientists. Then something ...
