Paul Jocelyn, 37, of Albertville, Minnesota approached a bull bison and tried to get the animal to raise its head for a photograph on Saturday near the Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park. For his troubles, he received a puncture wound in his inner right thigh as well as scrapes and bruises. Criminal charges of harassing wildlife are pending against the man, no action will be taken against the bison
The Navy won approval Monday to deploy two ships that use controversial low-frequency sonar to detect faraway submarines, despite continuing questions about whether the system’s loud blasts will injure whales and other ocean animals
Richard Wool, a chemical engineer from the University of Delaware, filed a patent that described a new generation of microchips. The patent proposes to replace silicon — which has long served as the basis for microchips — with another material. And what might this mystery component be? Chicken feathers
A study by the World Wildlife Fund warns that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life. Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate
Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared
The newest candidate challenging Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid for Congress is truly an underdog: a border collie mix. According to his owner and campaign manager, Wayne Genthner, Percy the dog is running as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary
Tschibsi, an Austrian farmer’s faithful dog, saved his life by running for help after a hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old’s left foot
A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison
A seal saved an elderly dog from a watery grave after it was swept away by fierce currents in a fast-flowing river in northern England
Bird lovers have a new use for their mobile phones — tracking the marathon journey of migrating geese. Anyone sponsoring one of six geese that carry satellite tags will be sent a weekly text message
Police in the west of England said on Friday they had recovered a cache of stolen property having been led to the hoard — by a squirrel
Australian scientists announced a breakthrough in efforts to clone the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, saying they had replicated some of the animal’s genes using DNA extracted from preserved male and female pups
Mummified, rotting moths are being used as a slow-release pesticide. Roundworms grown inside the moths’ bodies contain a bacteria which emerge to kill other soil bugs. If the moths are coated in clay and starch they can be easily scattered among crops
According to a United Nations study on the state of the global environment, almost a quarter of the world’s mammals face extinction within 30 years
Tom Lonsdale, an Australian vet, claims that pet food diets of processed meat and cereal are making animals ill and shortening their lives
Two of the recent litter of six red wolf puppies born at the North Carolina Zoological Park have been placed with a female already raising her own pups in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. This is the first time that captive-born red wolves have been placed with a wild mother
Greenpeace is accusing Japan of buying votes from new members of the International Whaling Commission in a bid to lift a global ban on commercial whaling
Friends of the Earth is calling for better testing of chemicals in products used by consumers, without using animals. It says the chemical industry promotes the use of unnecessary tests on laboratory animals, while attacking new standards for chemical products. The environmental group refers to the industry’s criticism of new safety suggestions in the interests of animal welfare as hypocritical
Some penguins avoid the bends by using a technique almost the same as human divers. The condition, also known as decompression sickness, happens when nitrogen enters the bloodstream. But Adélie and King penguins slow down and surface at an angle which helps with decompression
And if you don’t show an interest in science and technology, you miss out on learning about RatBots. By implanting electrodes in rats’ brains, scientists have created remote-controlled rodents they can command to turn left or right, climb trees and navigate piles of rubble — and maybe someday, with the rats outfitted with tiny video cameras, use to search for disaster survivors
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