Imagine this, you walk to the back of your farm and head over towards the chicken coops, you look inside; but instead of chickens you're presented with two tyrannosaur hatchlings. Sure this example is utterly ...
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For 30 years the yellow-spotted bell frog was thought to be extinct but fisheries conservation officer Luke Pearce recently rediscovered the frog species in an Australian farmland. • Large Billed Reed Warbler Thought to be Extinct, in Afghanistan • Cerbalus Aravensis: A...
The Large Billed Reed Warbler, which was thought to be extinct and is one of the world's rarest species of bird has been found again - in war ravaged Afghanistan. The bird has been spotted in the north-east of the country and is so rare that it has only been seen three...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 231 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
The WWF has released a statement saying that they estimate China's wild tiger population is down to just 50 and that the wild tiger faces extinction due to loss of habitat and poaching. ""If there are no urgent...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 437 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Please sit back in a comfortable and drink coffee with me, be careful not to spill coffee on your lap. Please let my words sink in, even if you have religious convictions that contradicts, my honestly given...
A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...
created by Annina Bergman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 162 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
Pandas should be allowed to go extinct because they are suck in an "evolutionary cul-de-sac" and that we should "pull the plug"on our conservation efforts, according to BBC presenter and naturalist Chris Packham....
created by candice.tsuei | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 309 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
A legendary bird that ate humans is more than a Maori legend. Te Hokioi, a bird with talons as big as tigers' paws, existed in the form of Haast's eagle, which became extinct around 500 years ago when humans killed its main prey, the moa. Sir Julius von Haast discovered the...
created by Annina Bergman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 3425 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
China's giant panda might be exinct in as little as two generations, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The panda's natural habitat is constantly shrinking, being split up in small patches that do not connect. This is a threat to their genetic...
created by Annina Bergman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 153 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
The world's original apple tree may become extinct, this is the apple tree according to Biblical stories was said to have grew in the Garden of Eden. As well as that apple tree, another 50 trees and bushes are on...
opinion by mudricky | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2705 views | 67 recommendations | 7 comments
The debate continues to rage about the evolution of humans. The finding of human skeletons on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 has intriqued palaeoanthropologists and sparked fierce debates. ...
UPDATE 1:" Jun 03, 2009 (Voice of America News/ContentWorks via COMTEX) In Kenya, parliament is being asked to ban a pesticide that's been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of animals, including many lions. Kenyan...
created by Suranee | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 249 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A stash of tools from the Clovis era has been found in a site near Boulder Colorado, which provides evidence of the fact that people used them to butcher ice-age camels and horses before they were extinct 13,000...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 360 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
With only 300 fluent speakers of Cornish left the UN has declared the language officially extinct. The UN believes that their have effectively been no speakers of Cornish as a first language since 1777 and so...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 668 views | 43 recommendations | 17 comments
Researchers from the University of Delhi and the Free University of Brussels have discovered twelve new species of frogs at night while hiking in the mountains during monsoon season. The twelve frogs are of the...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 275 views | 14 recommendations | 1 comment