Laura's Animals / Wildlife Blog

In this issue of Wildlife News Round-Up, there's news of a Japanese island that's gradually being eaten away by crustaceans, the birth of two black rhino calves in a Kenyan ... Read More

Ever since I visited Yellowstone National Park in September 2007, I've been stopping by the National Park Service website to view the Webcam page for Old Faithful Geyser. The Webcam ... Read More

The Defenders of Wildlife is a conservation organization that has been an integral part of the ongoing effort to reestablish wild populations of wolves. In 2004, the Defenders of Wildlife ... Read More

In 1926, the last of the wild gray wolves were eliminated from Yellowstone National Park. The absence of wolves in the park meant that one of region's top predators was ... Read More

The vertebrates that underwent the evolutionary transition from life in water to life on land faced four basic adaptive challenges. In order for an aquatic vertebrate to successfully colonize land, ... Read More

I've been reading quite a bit recently about the stage in vertebrate evolution when early amphibians first colonized land. It's an intriguing time in Earth's history. Land habitats were frontiers ... Read More

The fossil remains of a 48-million-year-old mammal have been unearthed by a team of scientists working in the Kashmir region of India. The research team, lead by Hans Thewissen of ... Read More

What threat does climate change pose for bird species throughout Europe? This question lies at the heart of a recently-released report, A Climatic Atlas of European Breeding Birds, published by ... Read More

The shipworm, despite its name, is not a worm at all. Instead it is a type of marine clam that burrows into the wood of ships and piers where it ... Read More

Exmoor National Park, located on the coast of South West England, is a stunning patchwork of moorland, woodland, villages, farms, combes (river valleys), coasts and cliffs. Exmoor was established in ... Read More