Northern Botswana – Communal cattle management practices have transformed human-wildlife tensions around the Okavango Delta, boosting lion numbers and easing livestock losses. A Near-Extinction Averted A Near-Extinction Averted (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Poisoned baits claimed around 30 lions by late 2013, wiping out more than half the population in northern Botswana’s Okavango region as villagers defended ...
Kathmandu, Nepal — With parliamentary elections set for March 5, 2026, the high-altitude Sherpa villages of Khumbu near Sagarmatha stayed calm, detached from the rallies and posters energizing urban Nepal. Winter Silence Masks Growing Perils Winter Silence Masks Growing Perils (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Harsh winters and seasonal migration emptied hamlets like Namche Bazaar, Lukla, and ...
North America – Monarch butterflies complete a remarkable annual migration that covers thousands of miles across Canada, the United States, and Mexico each fall. Over 400 Butterflies Tracked in Real Time Over 400 Butterflies Tracked in Real Time (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Researchers achieved a milestone in 2025 by attaching ultralight radio tags to more than ...
Northeastern China – Researchers unveiled a juvenile dinosaur fossil that preserves skin structures at the cellular level, including unprecedented hollow spikes. A Juvenile Marvel Preserved in Time A Juvenile Marvel Preserved in Time (Image Credits: Fabio Manucci) Paleontologists identified a new species, Haolong dongi, from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation. This herbivorous iguanodontian measured about ...
Niger – Scientists working in the remote sands of the central Sahara Desert revealed Spinosaurus mirabilis, a formidable fish-eating dinosaur equipped with a striking blade-like horn on its snout. First New Spinosaurus in a Century First New Spinosaurus in a Century (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Paleontologists stumbled upon the initial fossils in November 2019 at the ...
Northeastern Brazil – A partial skeleton unearthed from ancient rock layers has unveiled a long-necked giant that roamed the landscape 120 million years ago. Giant Among Early Cretaceous Beasts Giant Among Early Cretaceous Beasts (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Paleontologists identified Dasosaurus tocantinensis as a new species of somphospondylan sauropod, a titanosauriform dinosaur that thrived from the ...
You might think science fiction writers have the most creative imaginations on the planet. Giant aliens, toxic worlds, creatures with five heads and no sense of humor. Honestly, they’ve got nothing on planet Earth itself. Our planet has hosted ecosystems so jaw-droppingly alien, so fundamentally weird, that even the most ambitious screenwriter would probably struggle ...
When you picture a dinosaur, you probably think teeth, claws, and sheer terrifying size. You think of the predators, the giants, the thundering herds. What you almost certainly do not think about are the plants. And honestly? That is a colossal oversight. Because the plants came first. Long before the first dinosaur set foot on ...
Most of us picture dinosaurs as roaring, stomping behemoths crashing blindly through Jurassic forests. You probably imagine some giant lizard that could barely see past its own nose. Honestly, that picture could not be further from the truth. Modern paleontology, armed with CT scanners and cutting-edge brain mapping, has completely rewritten what you thought you ...
Imagine a world without oceans separating Africa from South America. A world where you could walk – quite literally – from what is now Brazil straight into Cameroon without ever getting your feet wet. For dinosaurs, that world was real. These extraordinary creatures did not simply stay put in one corner of a prehistoric landmass. ...
