DNA study shows snow leopards eat a lot of things — including plants
Despite not being herbivorous, snow leopards seem to eat more plants than you'd think.
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Parrots are facing extinction, and only policymakers can save them
Anyone know how I can get a job as a policymaker?
Human outposts on Mars could be sheltered by a thin layer of ‘frozen smoke’
Scientists envision using a very thin material to build a huge greenhouse on Mars.
Chernobyl has turned into a thriving habitat for hundreds of species
The environmental pressure generated by humans is larger than a nuclear explosion -- a revealing vision of the type of ...
Human interference is destroying chimpanzee culture, a new paper reports
Culture shock squared.
“Ecological air conditioning” keeps species cool for now, but it won’t last
Bad news. Bad, bad news.
Increasingly fragmented habitats may spell doom for the giant panda
Apart from this, the species is continuing its recovery.
Three new species of toad discovered in Nevada
We've just found them, but they may already be endangered.
Bumblebees in Europe and North America bumble away from the equator as habitats shrink due to climate change
In the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the impacts of climate change on critical pollinators, scientists have discovered that ...
NASA is offering over $2 million for the best design for a 3D printed Martian habitat
NASA is offering up to $2.25 million to anyone that can successfully design a habitat that can be 3D printed ...
Check out the world’s first man-made bat cave
While it may lack most of Bruce Wayne's gadgets, the very first artificial bat cave in the world is sure ...
World’s biggest beaver dam can be seen from space
The biggest beaver dam is (get ready folks), twice as long as the Hoover dam, measuring 2,790 ft (over 800 ...
The March award for awesome animal goes to THE MIMIC OCTOPUS
The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length ...
NASA is stunned to find life beneath 183 meters of Antarctic ice
At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists ...
Lion, Tiger and Bear share impressing friendship
They've known each other basically all their lives, but the early days weren't happy at all. Found during a police ...
Stunning variety of sea life found in Antarctica
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people ...
120 million crabs hit the streets
Image by Lilolebob. Every year, around this time of year, more than 100 million determined crabs take to the streets ...
A fifth of Florida’s pumas were killed in car collisions
There are less than 100 pumas left in Florida's wilds, and 17 were killed in collisions with cars, which is ...
Japanese project aims to turn CO2 into natural gas
Mankind is screwing up. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. Not taking care of our natural resources, polluting ...
Koalas in peril of extinction, due to habitat loss and an AIDS-like virus
The koala population has been going down for quite some while now, mostly due to habitat loss and the lack ...
Global warming posts new threats – Australian wildlife
The threat that global warming is has definetly been underestimated, and if something doesn't develop quite fast that could handle ...
