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Jaws -- 4 million BC: How an extinct shark attacked its prey

Science Daily Animal News - 6 hours 31 min ago

Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago.

New protections set for Twain's jumping frog (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 15:07

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shows a California red-legged frog. After 10 years of rewrites, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final report designating habitat for the California red-legged frog that inspired Mark Twain's story. The new rules, released Tuesday, March 16, 2010, sets aside 1.6 million acres for the threatened frog, down from the 4 million originally proposed in 2001. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Marc Hayes, File)AP - After 10 years of revisions, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final report designating habitat for the California red-legged frog that inspired Mark Twain's famous story.


Shark conservation proposal defeated at UN meeting (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 11:54

In this March 8, 2010 photo, a woman walks past shark fins displayed in a glass case at a dried seafood shop in Hong Kong. A U.N. body best known for protecting tigers and elephants will take aim at the world's overfished oceans, considering proposals to regulate the shark trade and ban the export of a tuna species prized by sushi lovers, in a meeting starting Saturday in Doha. Many Asian countries along with some Latin American and African countries are expected to come out against proposals by the United States and other countries to regulate the trade of at least four shark species including scalloped hammerhead and whitetip. These shark species have seen their numbers drop dramatically since the 1980s, due to rising demand for shark fin soup especially among China's nouveau rich and for fish and chips in Europe. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - China, Japan and Russia helped defeat a U.S.-endorsed proposal at a U.N. wildlife trade meeting Tuesday that would have boosted conservation efforts for sharks, expressing concern it would hurt poor nations and should be the responsibility of regional fisheries bodies.


Myanmar a gateway for wildlife trade to China: report (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 10:01

Leopard Saia prepares to pick up her cub in the zoo of Hanover, northern Germany in 2009. Demand in China is stoking a black market in neighbouring Myanmar in tiger-bone wine, leopard skins, bear bile and other products made from endangered species, a report released on Tuesday said.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)AFP - Demand in China is stoking a black market in neighbouring Myanmar in tiger-bone wine, leopard skins, bear bile and other products made from endangered species, a report released on Tuesday said.


Plucky whooping crane gives wildlife experts hope (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:14

In this Feb. 25, 2010 photo, whopping crane Scarbaby, bottom left, flies with his mate at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family's marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick's neck, death seemed certain.


Habitat loss wiping out Europe's butterflies (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 04:58

AFP - The destruction of natural habitats in Europe is wiping out butterfly, beetle and dragonfly species across the region, the updated European "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.


US senator moves to protect whales (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 04:27

An adult humpback whale. US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.(AFP/File/Heather Faulkner)AFP - US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.


Yellow fever strikes monkey populations in South America

Science Daily Animal News - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 02:00

A group of Argentine scientists have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in northeastern Argentina, a finding that underscores the importance of paying attention to the health of wildlife and how the health of people and wild nature are so closely linked.

2 wolves blamed in Alaska teacher's death killed (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 01:18

In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results announced Thursday, March 11, 2010, indicate Berner, 32, died March 8, 2010, in an animal attack outside the village of Chignik Lake, Alaska. Based on wolf tracks and other indications at the scene, Alaska State Troopers say Berner likely was killed by wolves but that the kind of animal cannot be determined without additional testing. (AP Photo/Lake and Peninsula Borugh School District, Alaska) NO SALES.AP - An Alaska Fish and Game spokeswoman says state officials have located and killed two of the wolves believed responsible for the death of a teacher who was killed while jogging alone along a rural village road.


Thrill-seeking holidaymakers are putting dolphins at risk

Science Daily Animal News - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 21:00

Tourists wanting to watch and swim with dolphins are now being urged to keep their distance in a bid to protect both the animals and the local communities whose livelihoods depend on them.

Porous China-Myanmar border allowing illegal wildlife trade

Science Daily Animal News - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 21:00

Porous borders are allowing vendors in Myanmar to offer a door-to-door delivery service for illegal wildlife products such as tiger bone wine to buyers in China, according to TRAFFIC's latest snapshot into wildlife trade in China.

3 tigers very ill at Chinese zoo where 11 starved (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 20:55

AP - Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeastern China where 11 of the big cats starved to death recently.

Chinese medicine societies reject tiger bones ahead of CITES conference

Science Daily Animal News - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 17:00

WWF and TRAFFIC welcome a World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies statement urging its members not to use tiger bone or any other parts from endangered wildlife.

US senator moves to protect whales (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 16:13

An adult humpback whale. US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.(AFP/File/Heather Faulkner)AFP - US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.


Canada ups seal hunt quota by 50,000 (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:56

Seal hunting boats sail through the water in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada. Canada's fisheries minister on Monday hiked the total number of seals that hunters would be allowed to slaughter during an annual Atlantic coast hunt set to begin later this month.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Canada's fisheries minister on Monday hiked the total number of seals that hunters would be allowed to slaughter during an annual Atlantic coast hunt set to begin later this month.


'Bloodied' Spanish activists protest Canada seal hunt (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 09:12

A Harp seal pup lays on an ice floe in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada. A group of several half-naked women covered in fake blood staged a protest in front of the Canadian consulate in Barcelona on Monday to denounce the country's annual seal hunt.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - A group of several half-naked women covered in fake blood staged a protest in front of the Canadian consulate in Barcelona on Monday to denounce the country's annual seal hunt.


China investigating zoo over dead tigers (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 06:09

A file photo of a Siberian tiger. Authorities are investigating a Chinese zoo where three dozen animals including 13 rare Siberian tigers died recently, amid charges it was harvesting their parts, state media said Monday.(AFP/DDP/File/Uwe Meinhold)AFP - Authorities are investigating a Chinese zoo where three dozen animals including 13 rare Siberian tigers died recently, amid charges it was harvesting their parts, state media said Monday.


Researchers back from Antarctic no-kill whale trip (AP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 02:42

An adult humpback whale. US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.(AFP/File/Heather Faulkner)AP - Whale researchers returned from Antarctic waters Monday after a six-week expedition that they said proved Japan's annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary.


Hungarian Vizsla is top dog at Crufts (AFP)

Yahoo Animals and Pets - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 01:40

A man and his dog perform Heelwork to Music at the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham on March 11. A Hungarian Vizsla named Yogi has been awarded the top prize at Crufts dog show in Britain, which is the biggest in the world.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - A Hungarian Vizsla named Yogi has been awarded the top prize at Crufts dog show in Britain, which is the biggest in the world.


Urged on by urchins: How sea lilies got their get-up-and-go

Science Daily Animal News - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 21:00

Nature abounds with examples of evolutionary arms races. Certain marine snails, for example, evolved thick shells and spines to avoid be eaten, but crabs and fish foiled the snails by developing shell-crushing claws and jaws. Now, a study finds that sea urchins have been preying on marine animals known as crinoids for more than 200 million years and suggests that such interactions drove one type of crinoid -- the sea lily -- to develop the ability to escape by creeping along the ocean floor.

 

 

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