EDGE stands for Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered, and the program to save them by the Zoological Society of London. Each animal is given a score for how evolutionarily distinct it is…animals with high scores are out on their own branches of the evolutionary family tree or phylogeny. This is combined with a [...]
The tenth annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) starts today and runs through Monday; you can spend as little as fifteen minutes counting birds in a location and submit your results to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You might even win a prize.
The real prize, of course, is the data that’s collected:
Last year, [...]
There have been a lot of wonderful photos posted to the Flickr pool. Here are the three most recent:
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I’m never quite sure whether I want to post the latest “hundreds of [insert animal] are being found dead.
But in this case I will…Rare Turtles Found Dead in Bangladesh:
Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh’s coast in the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official [...]
“Cryptids” are animals so rare that their very existence is debatable…everything from the Ivory Billed Woodpecker to Bigfoot. Your number one source on the web for information about cryptids is Cryptomundo. Browse under the investigations links for information legendary animals like bigfoot, chupacabras, or Loch Ness Monster. If it’s entertainment or [...]
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