It’s always a happy day at a zoo when one of their animals gives birth, a newborn baby animal becoming part of the family. But it’s especially exciting when that animal is endangered. Every new ...
It was filled with tortoises. The shocking discovery was made at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Smugglers had hid hundreds of live, rare tortoises in several suitcases, according to ABC News. In total, customs ...
The shocking discovery was made at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Smugglers had hid hundreds of live, rare tortoises in several suitcases, according to ABC News. In total, customs found 330 tortoises, at an ...
The box was only 16 inches (42 cm) tall, with a few holes bored on the sides. It was labeled to be sent to Syria. But apart from an airline ticket number, the box was ...
Inside five large freezers, police found 657 dead pangolins. Pangolins are a critically endangered species also known as “scaly anteaters.” I’m not sure how poachers and smugglers can look past the sweet innocent eyes of ...
Eighty-year-old Nigrita is a female Galapagos tortoise that lives in Switzerland’s Zoo Zurich. And she is also a new mom. Zoo Zürich, Samuel Furrer Although 80 sounds a little old to raise kids, for ...
A team from the Australian National University (ANU) recently brought 14 eastern quolls over from Tasmania and set them free in the Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary. ANU Professor Adrian Manning said in a press release: “Our aim is not ...