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Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now…
ST. JOHN’S – Scientists, academics, friends and family gathered on Sunday to honour the life of world-renowned seabird biologist William Montevecchi, who died earlier this year at the age of 80. Montevecchi was professor at…
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Austin American-Statesman's Birding and Breakfast event on the Wishbone Bridge on Oct. 30. Light rain didn't dampen our spirits as we spotted egrets, herons, coots and many more beautiful water birds while sipping coffee from Desnudo and noshing on biscuits and…
The fish is much smaller than you'd think. Why on Earth would evolution give a fish a transparent head? And what exactly is going on inside it? Meet the barreleye fish, a bizarre deep-sea creature that looks like someone replaced the top of its skull with a glass cockpit. Inside…
Giant sea spiders off southeastern Australia have an unusual feature to match their impressive size: glowing legs that can measure 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) long. A 2017 survey of an Australian deep-sea trench brought Jérôme…
For many of us at Murdoch University, bandicoots are surprisingly familiar neighbours. Quenda, the south-western subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon fusciventer), are regularly seen around campus, scurrying…
For communities living around Kenya’s famous Amboseli ecosystem — a vast wildlife landscape in the country’s south near the border with Tanzania — elephants are both a source of pride and a growing challenge. The deaths of 18 elephants between late June and August in the Amboseli ecosystem, and the…
A group of Manatee County residents have been asking commissioners to make good on what they call a 2019 promise to build a brick-and-mortar animal shelter. The shelter was planned for East County off State Road 64, but the plan…