Lizard limbo
/The Sleepy Lizard – half lizard, half pinecone – lives in shrublands and scrublands of southern Australia, where dry summers alternate with moist winters. What happens if those winters disappear?
Read MoreThe Sleepy Lizard – half lizard, half pinecone – lives in shrublands and scrublands of southern Australia, where dry summers alternate with moist winters. What happens if those winters disappear?
Read MoreThese are Red Giant Flying Squirrels, and guess what, breaking news! Researchers in the Indian Himalayan rainforest have been watching them glide. Yep, watching nocturnal squirrels glide, in the dark, with night vision binoculars. Why? you ask.
Read MoreIn New England, winter is for gull-watching. I stood on Jodrey State Fish Pier in the fog and drizzle of a late Friday morning in January, inside a roiling cloud of gray and white birds. A stocky fisherman in orange foul-weather gear had just thrown a bucketful of...
Read More...a chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh is using sheepdogs to protect Little Penguins from foxes.
Little Penguin
We found some real live eggs today: a Northern Lapwing nest in the middle of a Frisian farm field. Frisians have a long tradition of hunting for lapwing nests (there's even a special hat they wear). But they aren't allowed to collect eggs anymore, because..
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