Animals
New Monster Predator Revealed in Fossils – Hurdia victoria
A monster predator with a circular jaw and a pair of claws on its head has been discovered in old collections of the Smithsonian museum in Washington. [caption id="attachment_4407" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Monster predator with a circular jaw"][/caption] Fragments of the monster were unearthed in 1912 somewhere in Canada's 505 million-year-old Burgess Shale site. Researchers are first thought they were part of a ...
Stranded Whales Rescued off SW Australia
Yo mamma is so fat that she has her own zip code. Yo mamma is so fat that people sit next to her at the beach to get some shade. Yo mamma is so fat that 20 Greenpeacers tried to throw her back into the ocean. Funny. Not funny... about 80 long-finned whales beached themselves in Hamelin Bay, Western Australia. Five bottlenose dolphins joined ...
We Love Baby Animals – Tigers, Hippos, Elephants and Snow Monkeys
We love babies. Babies are all about hope for the future. You can't help but think all will be well, or dang it!, we'd best clean up our act so we can make things better so our little ones will have a home here on Earth to enjoy when they are old enough to have their own offspring. Baby siberian tiger ...
When Koala’s Wear Out Their Welcome
Koala bears - those cute little fuzzy creatures, half squirrel, half bear, half something else from down under. Every zoo wants some, until now. It costs more to feed six koalas at Osaka's Tennoji Zoo than to feed the rest of the zoo's animals put together. That comes to Y92million ($950,000) a year to feed them or $160,000 each per year ...
Gobi Desert Source of Rare Dinosaur Find – Sinornithomimus
A team of Chinese and American scientists excavated some well-preserved fossils in the Gobi Desert. The team says the herd of ostrich-like sinornithomimus lived some 90 million years ago. "This is a very exciting discovery, because 99.9 percent of the time, we find a group of skeletons that died at different periods due to unknown causes," said Paul Sereno, a University ...
Scientific Proof that Humans Did Not Evolve from Chimps
There's scientific proof that humans did not evolve from chimpanzees at Sweden's Furuvik Zoo. Researchers watched Santino the chimp's anti-social behavior and studied the 31-year old alpha-male over the years - 10 years to be somewhat exact. Santino never attacked others in his group probably because he was comfortable being the head banana ... or getting his bananas first. What shocked the researchers ...
Flipper the Dolphin Says Hello to Tony the Tiger
It's not their real names. The tiger's name is Vallejo Akaasha which is Californian for Tony. The dolphin's name is Maverick which is Californian for Flipper. The two characters met at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. Flipper spoke to Tiger - see the bubbles?
200 pilot whales stranded in Australia
Some 200 pilot whales or thereabouts beached themselves on an island near Australia's southern state of Tasmania. Most are already dead. Rescuers say there were 194 pilot whales and seven dolphins that were beached. Around 140 of the whales were already dead by the time authorities and civilian wildlife rescuers arrived. There is hope the remaining mammals could be saved if ...
I Wish I Were a Lion, I Wish I Were a Lion
Oftentimes, here at Greenpacks we write about how our animal friends don't get their due, or are just plain mistreated. Well, that is not always the case. [caption id="attachment_4021" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Is there a thorn here somewhere?"][/caption] Repeat after me, "I wish I were a lion...I wish I were a Lion..." A British zookeeper, Alex Larenty, (no relation to our Alex here at GP, ...
Polar Regions Not So Bare – Rich in Species
A marine census has documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic. Several hundred species are even new to science. "The textbooks have said there is less diversity at the poles than the tropics, but we found astonishing richness of marine life in the Antarctic and Arctic oceans," says a researcher from the Australian Antarctic Division. "We are ...
