La Palma, an island in the Canary Islands, has an animal problem: wild ferrets that are multiplying there and could damage the ecosystem. Humans are largely to blame, as people use ferrets to hunt for rabbits and then some of ...
Grizzly bears have entered polar bear territory, setting the stage for deadly bear versus bear encounters to come, suggests a study recently published in the journal Canadian Field Naturalist. Should the bears meet, the grizzlies could do some serious damage. ...
This week at Discovery News you can read how recordings of Rush Limbaugh and Guns & Roses are being used in pest control research. Scientists are trying to rid forests of excess tree-eating beetles. We're mostly to blame for the ...
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of "turtle of Angola," a Late Cretaceous reptile that was one of the earliest known marine turtles from Africa. The seafaring turtle, Angolachelys mbaxi, lived 90 million years ago. Octavio Mateus, ...
