After the discovery of a female member of Swinhoe’s softshell turtle, the most endangered turtle species, conservationists are now celebrating the birth of an Indian rhinoceros in Poland’s Wroclaw Zoo, a hopeful development in efforts to preserve the threatened species. Apparently, the Indian rhinoceros is
A video of a leopard interacting with humans in quite a friendly way has left people baffled. According to the first information received, this video was filmed in Tirthan Valley of Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. The animal can be seen walking down the vehicle-filled road
It was a historic day for the scientific community when in 2016, a gold miner excavating permafrost in Yukon, Canada, in the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City, came across a mummified carcass of an ancient grey wolf (Canis lupus). Then unearthed, the 57,000 years
Asian elephants – with their rounded ears, wrinkled grey skin, and frolicking habits – are undoubtedly charming and adorable. Their terrain once expanded from Syria to China more than nine million square kilometres. But with the fragmentation of habitat owing to farming, industry, and the
Once the greater gliders, the world’s biggest gliding mammals, roamed the Australian lands freely. However, with the climate changes and human activities, the animal now falls in the category of endangered species. To the delight of conservationists, researchers have recently revealed that there are actually
Genetic mutation has given us some of the most beautiful living beings from various species. Be it yellow turtles, white lions, or black tigers – many such gorgeous marvels inhabit the earth. Recently an amateur photographer shared pictures of one of the extremely rare black
The charismatic snow leopard is an endangered animal, which is practically facing extinction as its habitat shrinks amid climate change crisis. As the impacts of climate change become increasingly frequent, the snow leopard – an apex predator of the alpine environment – will be among
Since human settlements have been expanding into wildlife habitats, human-animal conflicts have become widespread and more frequent than ever. The state of West Bengal has emerged as a major human-elephant conflict zone. According to the latest data provided by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and
A massive rescue operation has been going on to save around 270 whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on September 21. Unfortunately, at least a third of 270 whales have already died and more are
The majestic Caspian Tigers once proudly roamed the lands of Central Asia, but have gone extinct half a century ago. These big cats strayed through most of the Northern provinces of Iran and on the border of former Soviet country Tajikistan. In the late 19th