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Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists have found. A female hammerhead shark has given birth without mating with a male and its offspring has no paternal DNA.
An international team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska [...]

Created by an award-winning advertising agency, this frightful flick is a spine-tingling tale of terror and torture. Want to know the scariest thing of all? “Dancing” bears in Pakistan and India are mercilessly mutilated just like this when they are barely a year old. Go here to see the video.
No animal should have to endure [...]

Hordes of giant mice are devouring endangered seabird chicks on a remote South Atlantic island and may be pushing some of the birds to extinction, scientists report. The carnage has harmed the breeding success of endangered Tristan albatrosses and threatened Atlantic petrels on Gough Island, a British territory a thousand miles (1,600 [...]

You might blame the dog for eating your homework, or a traffic jam for being late to work. But if you ever find yourself facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit for contaminating the world’s number one food crop with an unapproved genetically engineered variety, just do what biotech company Bayer does. Blame God!
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The most endangered big cat in the world, the Asiatic lion found only in Gir in Gujarat, now finds itself in an ego tussle between the Centre and the state of Gujarat.
With less than 350 lions, Gir is in a very vulnerable position. On the one hand that is not a viable population of the [...]

A new census estimates that only 25 to 34 wild Amur leopards remain—at least 66 fewer than are needed to ensure survival, experts say.
Also known as the Far Eastern leopard, the Amur has been painted into a deadly corner by habitat-slashing, conservationists said this week.
Weighing in at about 55 to 130 pounds (25 to 59 [...]

From: Humane Society International
One month to go! Whales threatened AGAIN at the IWC
HELP WHALES NOW!
1. Write Iceland’s Prime Minister. We will also send your letter to a major
Icelandic newspaper to show that the global public cares about this issue!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/Iceland_whaling_06/wkngdn32hxme7te?
2. Write your country’s Icelandic Ambassador. Use our action page to send a
copy of your letter to [...]

In the final chapter of Covance’s efforts to bar PETA Europe from publicizing video footage of animal abuse inside a Covance facility, Covance has complied with a court order by paying PETA Europe 145,000 to cover legal fees and costs.
Shortly after PETA U.S. went public with an 11-month investigation that documented appalling physical and psychological [...]

The United States Navy is planning on constructing a jet landing field in eastern North Carolina within 3.5 miles of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most critical wintering grounds for waterfowl in the Atlantic Flyway and home to endangered red wolves.
This would be a disaster for the refuge and the hundreds [...]

Excerpted from the National Wildlife Federation’s “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife” by David Mizejewski
Imagine a child growing up without having the opportunity to watch a tadpole changing into a frog, to smell a wildflower, or to wade in a clear stream. As we enter the 21st century, natural places and the wildlife [...]

Photo Source: Badgerland
At least five times a year, Pauline Kidner receives a most unusual package: an orphaned badger cub. This time, it’s little Chestnut, an infant of about five or six weeks old. Somewhat battered and worse for the wear, Chestnut desperately needs Pauline’s expert first aid. It’s a tough world out there for [...]

Comfortably seated in your chair, you turn on the computer, enter a hunting field, adjust your mouse on a deer which is grazing quietly and click. The deer falls on the ground. After a few days, a courier rings the door bell, bringing the deer’s corpse, sent by the owner of the virtual hunting land. [...]