Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)We’ve all walked around a zoo and wondered just how hard it could be to run one. After all, you just need to get the animals in one place and keep them from escaping, right? However, if the plethora of zoo management sims on the market is anything to go by,…
AnimalsWildlife WatchIn the last six months, three dolphins have died in The Mirage's animal exhibit—which is now temporarily shuttered.ByDina Fine MaronPublished September 29, 2022• 7 min readK2 was fun to be around. The bottlenose dolphin was an energetic 11-year-old, a young adult in dolphin years, who was born at The Mirage casino on the Las…
An international team has reconstructed the genome organization of the earliest common ancestor of all mammals. The reconstructed ancestral genome could help in understanding the evolution of mammals and in conservation of modern animals. The earliest mammal ancestor likely looked like the fossil animal "Morganucodon" which lived about 200 million years ago. The work is…
Weeks before we even think about getting sandbags or boarding up windows to prevent hurricane damage, an underwater evacuation begins. Sharks, sea snakes, and other wildlife will make preparations to escape becoming trapped or hurt as massive storms approach a coast. Much of Florida’s aquatic life—including species as diverse as manatees and alligators—know what to…
ByMichael GreshkoPublished September 28, 2022• 14 min readOver hundreds of millions of years, chance and survival have sculpted an extraordinary menagerie of vertebrate life that thrives on land, in the air, and in the water. Vertebrates are animals with spinal columns, including humans, and arguably the single biggest step in vertebrate evolutionary history—even more significant…
Crawly Creatures Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 30 September to 15 January 2023 WEBWIRE – Wednesday, September 28, 2022 This autumn Rijksmuseum braces itself for an invasion of ants, lizards, snakes and other assorted creatures who take over the Philips Wing for an unprecedented exhibition that explores the changing perceptions of these small animals in art…
Wufengella bengtsoni, an extinct species of tommotiid worm that lived during the Cambrian period, resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals. A reconstruction of how Wufengella bengtsoni would have looked like in life. Image credit: Roberts Nicholls, Paleocreations.com. Wufengella bengtsoni lived in what is now China during the Cambrian period, approximately 518…
Home News Lifes-little-mysteries The female South African cycad weevil have a long snout relative to its body size. (Image credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum London) Animals come in all shapes and sizes, from the smallest beetle to the largest whale. With such a vast variety of creatures, which one of Earth's millions of…
A tranquilizer used for animals is appearing more frequently in street drugs across North America, alarming drug policy experts and harm reduction advocates alike. Xylazine may sound like the name of a "Star Trek" character, but it's actually a muscle relaxer widely used in veterinary medicine – and it's causing big problems across the continent.…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons encloses a utopian world inside itself. Nintendo has mastered the art of creating a different universe through this video game. The players have the freedom to create their surroundings from scratch and start a civilization. But sometimes, luxurious things are demanded for adding a classy touch.ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adDeveloped by…
