Photo via The Telegraph Old and new animals made the news this week, with babies — including giraffes and lions — joining the family and brand-new species of spider and shrew turning up, while rediscovered reptiles, whales, and amphibians surprised researchers. Read more about these animal stories (and more) in our slideshow.
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The Week in Animal Photos: Unlikely Friends, Creative Elephants, and More (Slideshow)
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Image credit: foto.rajith /Flickr Whether they are destined for local markets, neighboring countries, or beyond, the wildlife of South East Asia are on the move—hidden in the nets, crates, and even carry-ons of opportunistic smugglers. The latest victims of this alarming trend are the more than 400 monitor lizards rescued from smugglers trying to cross the Malaysia border…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Malaysian Smugglers Nabbed with Hundreds of Lizards
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Photo via MyFavoritePetSitter In order to know what the emissions and pollution created since the industrial revolution have really done to our air quality, researchers need to know what the air was like before we discovered our affinity for factories. To do that, they have to scout out the last places on earth where the air has stayed unaffected by everything we’ve pumped into it. It sounds like an impossible task, but researchers have found a spot above the Amazon Basin of Manaus that seems to fit the bill. They’v… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Last Pure Air Particles on Earth Captured for Climate Science
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Original image from Wikipedia Commons A life at sea proved not to be for a tiny burrowing owl that had made its home on one of the world’s most luxurious cruise ships. The protected bird was found to have moved into the ship’s artificial golf course while it was docked in Port Everglades, Florida. Alerted to the stowaway, the local Fish and Wildlife Commission was brought in to … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Soaring With a Unique Point of View I just found a couple of great videos filmed by miniature cameras strapped on birds of preys (thank you
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Strapping Cameras to Birds of Prey = 150 MPH Dives, 10g Turns, Barrel Rolls, etc (Videos)
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image via ultraprt I have to be very careful when writing about Pod Cars; the pod people are dedicated and vocal and once gave me a prize for writing fishwrap . I have previously called them a solution in search of a problem, but Jim Witkin at the New York Times thinks that they might make se… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Podcars Almost Ready To Roll in London
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Image: Fake is the New Real For Subway Map Lovers (I Know You’re Out There!) We have done many posts about subway maps, and they are always pretty popular. It seems like there’s a large group of people out there who enjoy looking at subway maps from around the world (who knew?). Today, I have a treat for these people. I stumbled on a site that has subway maps from around the world, and they’ve all be normalized to the same scale so that it’s easier to compare them…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Subway Maps from Around the World, All on the Same Scale
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Image credit: Richard Barnes Taken individually, the European starling appears to be a mundane species; the kind of bird that is present in backyards around the world, pecking at insects, darting from one place to the next. But when these gregarious birds flock together, they form a swarm that is more reminiscent of the Smoke Monster from Lost t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Starling Flocks Mesmerize in Coordinated Swarms (Slideshow)
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Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that after decades of cataloging plants from around the world, there… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
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Photo: Flickr , CC Officials in Kuwait have announced that a comprehensive survey of their territorial waters has revealed that about 90% of the corals there are dead or dying. The head of the Kuwait Diving Team, Walid Al-Fadhel, said in a statement: “this requires quick action by the competent authorities to find out the real causes, as well as solutions.” He also called on frequent goers to these marine natural sites to refrain from any action that may inflict damage in the reefs or kill the creatures co-existing with them…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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