A jaguar attacked a woman at a zoo in Arizona, leaving her with injuries that required medical attention, the fire department said. The attack happened Saturday evening at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, said Shawn Gilleland of the Rural Metro Fire Department. The guest crossed over the barrier to get a photo and… via …
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Each spring, hundreds of thousands of shorebirds stop to rest and feed along the Washington Coast and in the Grays Harbor estuary during their migration northward. Coming from as far south as Argentina, these Arctic-bound shorebirds are among the world’s greatest migrants. Some birds travel over 15,000 miles round trip! The concentration of birds during […] …
It was more than 60 years ago when a pod of unusual-looking killer whales washed up on a New Zealand beach. With their snubbed noses and pointy fins, scientists had a hunch that these were no ordinary orcas. New research carried out in parts of the ocean off Chile may present viable proof that the… via …
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Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic This ornamental shrub, which is common throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic Region, produces small, fragrant yellow flowers that cluster at the nodes of bare stems before leaves appear in early spring. The Virginia Native Plant Society named Spicebush as Wildflower of the Year in 2006. via SHRUB: …
Source: Buffalo Field Campaign Is it any wonder that buffalo have been staying out of Montana when this is the kind of welcome they receive? As we’ve been reporting, hardly any buffalo have migrated from Yellowstone into Montana this winter. The few who had come close didn’t stay long before heading deeper into the park. […] …
Does anyone in Montana, Yellowstone or the broader US care at all anymore about their wild resources and icons? This article seems to indicate not. There's a brutality now quite evident, boiling over everywhere, in the US that is stark, cold and cruel. Straight from the Horse's Heart article follows verbatim. read more …
Nombre en español: Autillo Gorgiblanco Nombre en ingles: White-throated Screech-Owl Nombre científico: Megascops albogularis Familia: Strigidae Foto: Nick Athanas Canto: Peter Boesman El autillo gorgiblanco o autillo de garganta blanca (Megascops albogularis)2 es una especie de ave estrigiforme de la familia Strigidae nativa de los Andes en Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela. Es la …
Australian researchers used carbon dating to determine the tattoo tools from Tonga are around 2,700 years old.(Image credit: Jack Fox/Australian National University) via Making A Mark: Ancient Tonga Tattoo Tools May Illustrate Birth Of Polynesian Body Art — News : NPR
(BORREGO SPRINGS, Calif.) — It started with the desert lilies in December. Since then a wave of wildflower blooms has been crescendoing across Southern California’s Anza-Borrego desert in a burst of color so vivid it can be seen from mountain tops thousands of feet above. Two years after steady rains followed by warm temperatures caused… via …
They were doing the line dance when what sounded like firecrackers split the air. Because the sound was to be expected at a Chinese lantern festival, no one immediately noticed the demise of a fig tree that for 144 years had watched skyscrapers built around it and a freeway carved out beside it; that saw… via …
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