Spectacular Rustgill (Gymnopilus pampeanus), originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Spectacular Rustgill (Gymnopilus pampeanus), originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
This is a hand sculpted cuttlefish with the proper amount of arms and everything! It’s made from tinted translucent polymer clay and glazed in order to give it that nice glassy look. The white dots are suspended between the body and the outer layer to give it depth. Impress your friends by explaining why this is not a squid — via Etsy
A litter of Mexican Gray Wolves, the most Endangered wolf species in the world, came to the Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden — and not by conventional means. They arrived on a LightHawk flight at Tri-State Aero, Inc. and were immediately given into the care of zoo staff. The pups are doing well — via ZooBorns
Photo Credit: Francisco Mingorance
The fennec, or desert fox is a canine mammal species of the genus Vulpes, which inhabits the Sahara Desert and Arabia and is the smallest species of the family Canidae — via Traveller Photo Contest 2013 – National Geographic
This is my entry for the The Murderous Minifigs Contest. You can either build a classic Clue(do) vig (8 x 8) or a remix. For the remix you have to come up with your own characters, weapons and locations.
Since I’m not only a huge Clue fan, but also a huge HP Lovecraft fan, my choice was obvious — via MOCpages.com
Israeli park ranger Yoram Malka caught only a fleeting glimpse of the frog as it leapt across the road, but he knew it was something special.
When he first saw the frog in northern Israel’s Hula Valley, Malka jerked his utility vehicle to a stop, bounded out of his seat, and jumped atop it, catching the creature in his hands.
The animal had a mottled backside and a black belly with white dots. It belonged to a species that most scientists thought had disappeared from the Earth more than half a century ago.
In fact, the Hula painted frog was the first amphibian to officially be declared extinct, in 1996. Prior to Malka’s 2011 encounter, the animal had not been spotted alive in nearly 60 years.
When Sarig Gafny, a river ecologist at Israel’s Ruppin Academic Centre, received Malka’s cell phone picture of the frog, he recalled that everything fell out of my hands
.
I forgot about my fever, jumped into my car, and drove two hours north to see it,
said Gafny, the co-author of a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications detailing the frog’s rediscovery — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An extinct plant-eating reptile that roamed the steamy forests of South-east Asia some 40 million years ago has been named for Doors front man Jim Morrison.
Jason Head, a palaeontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his colleagues describe the reptile — named Barbaturex morrisoni — this week in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It lived in the strange days when the Earth’s poles were ice-free and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were nearly twice what they are today, and, at six feet long and upwards of 60 pounds, it was one of the largest known lizards ever to walk on land.
B morrisoni’s remains had been waiting for the sun a long time. The giant lizard’s remains were unearthed in Myanmar — a country located between the Horse Latitudes — in the 1970s, but they languished at the University of California Museum of Palaeontology until a few years ago, when Head and his team began examining them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Urban art installations and street art called Art Attacks
by Filthy Luker — via Wil Wheaton dot Tumblr
When Ydra, a female South American Tapir at the Netherlands’ Artis Zoo, was restless and refused her food last week, zoo keepers knew it wouldn’t be long before she delivered her calf. Sure enough, on 10 April, a male calf was born and Ydra licked him clean as he lay beside her on the straw. Named Alexandro, the calf is the first offspring for Ydra and her mate Carlo — via ZooBorns
I have short-sleeved t-shirts of my Rainbow Octopus artwork! Sizes S-XXL are available. Head over to Etsy for details, including more photos — via CrashOctopus Blog
When an aggressive virus strikes, there’s often little that can be done. Fortunately,Jackson Zoo’s dedicated animal care team was able to give the medical attention needed to rescue a litter of Red Wolf pups from a virus that had been transmitted by the pups’ mother, Taladu — via ZooBorns
27 April marked the arrival of baby Arctic Wolves At Zoo Vienna. The cubs are now ready to leave the den from time to time for short excursions into the outside world — via ZooBorns
With shaggy fur and chunky legs, a baby Musk Ox is taking centre stage at the Calgary Zoo. The calf was born on 23 April to mum Shyia and dad Tlayopi. Though Musk Ox calves are big babies, they have a lot of growing to do before reaching their adult weight of 500 to 800 pounds — via ZooBorns
Heroes in a half shell… Snailtle power! As it is World Turtle Day, I figured it was the best day to premiere these guys. Snailonardo, Snailatello, Snailphael and Snailangelo The Ninja Snailtles! — via Crochet all the Things
Dublin Zoo is celebrating one of its most exciting arrivals of 2013: a male Southern White Rhinoceros calf. The calf, who is yet to be named, was born to mother Ashanti on 26 April and weighs approximately 50kg — via ZooBorns
Plants that were frozen during the Little Ice Age
centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth, scientists say.
Samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions.
Researchers say this back-from-the-dead trick has implications for how ecosystems recover from the planet’s cyclic long periods of ice coverage.
The findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — via redwolf.newsvine.com
thought I’d try this in B & W, originally uploaded by Liz Emmerson.
In late April, a Red Wolf pup was born at the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf Recovery Program facility in Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina. Born in captivity, the little female was the only surviving pup of her litter. The Red Wolf Recovery Program has taken this opportunity to introduce the pup to a wild litter of pups — via Critically Endangered Red Wolf Pup Gets a Wild Foster Mom – ZooBorns
PETA has to an article I wrote about their killing, an article that has already received nearly a quarter of a million likes
, has been shared roughly 85,000 times and has generated 5,000 comments.
I believe the purpose is to intimidate critics into silence. This is not the first time PETA has tried to do so. Many animal lovers who have publicly condemned PETA for their killing have received a letter from the PETA legal department. However, because a lawsuit would, among other things, allow for: subpoenas of PETA employees past and present; information as to where the PETA mobile van picked up animals, who it picked them up from, what they were told, who put them to death, when they were put to death, and where the bodies were discarded; the names of people and groups they’ve acquired animals from and what was said or not said to them; as well as records for all animals taken in and killed; and because a lawsuit would open PETA up to a counter-claim for chilling speech—a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation designed to silence, intimidate, or punish those who use public forums to right some wrong — I believe it is unlikely that PETA would ever follow-through with these threats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five of nature’s most fearful animals have formed a bond — after the baby animals were abandoned by their mums. The baby animals — three lions cubs, a tiger cub, and a spotted hyena cub are having a roaring good time at the Akwaaba Lodge in Rustenburg, South Africa, where all the baby animals live under one roof
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