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Ukrainian Tourists Face Backlash — And Possible Legal Action — After Riding A Nesting Sea Turtle In Oman
A video filmed at one of Oman’s best-known sea turtle nesting sites has triggered an international backlash, after two Ukrainian tourists were seen sitting on the shell of a female green sea turtle and handling her newly hatched young while she tried to get away. What The Video Showed The incident took place at Ras…
Scientists Just Named The First New Penguin Species In More Than 100 Years — And It Was Hiding In Plain Sight
For more than a century, gentoo penguins were treated as a single, widely distributed species spread across the Southern Ocean. New genomic research says that’s wrong — there are actually four separate species, including one that had never been formally described before, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The new species, named Pygoscelis kerguelensis and dubbed the…
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A Photographer Shared an Unflattering Bird Photo. A Stranger’s Reaction Made It Go Viral.
UK wildlife photographer Carl Bovis has built a following of hundreds of thousands by sharing charming, high-quality bird photography. So when a photo of a rain-soaked woodpigeon mid-preen…
Noah’s Ark Hunters Share First Video From Inside the Mysterious Durupınar Formation
An international research team has released the first footage captured from inside a massive, boat-shaped rock formation in eastern Turkey that some believe could be connected to the…
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Orphaned, Hairless and Afraid: How This Black Bear Cub Became Unrecognizable
A nearby resident first spotted the cub wandering alone near Pilot Hill in El Dorado County, California, surviving in rough terrain with…
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Scientists Deliver Their “Starkest Warning Yet” on the Profound Changes Sweeping the World’s Oceans
More than 100 international scientists have issued what they’re calling their starkest warning yet about the state of the planet’s oceans, describing…