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These Lonely Animals Were the Last of Their Kind
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoExtinction is an age-old song, one played so many times in Earth’s history that we regularly discover new species that died out in the ancient past. But...
Meet Fernanda the giant tortoise from a species believed extinct a century ago
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists have reported that a rare species of giant tortoise thought to have died out more than a...
12 of the oldest animals ever, ranked by age
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA jellyfish (not Turritopsis dohrnii) in Antarctica, photographed by Henry Kaiser of the National Science Foundation.Henry Kaiser, National Science...
Mazel Tov! 90-Year-Old Mr. Pickles Fathers Three Tortoises
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAt 90, Mr. Pickles the radiated tortoise is the oldest animal at the Houston Zoo. And now, the...
GRAPHIC-Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoNature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. Humans are driving this extinction crisis through activities that take over animal habitats, pollute nature and fuel global warming, scientists ...