It’s not everyday that you see a giant tortoise strolling down the street, but certain lucky residents of Tokyo, Japan have been witnessing just that! The owner must have mastered true patience judging by how long it must take just to go for a ‘quick walk’! Being an African Spurred tortoise it is suspected that...
In what totally sounds like a mash-up of two of Jeff Goldblum’s best movies, The Fly and Jurassic Park, scientists at New York University and the University of Chicago have created mutant fruit flies carrying reconstructed genes from 140 million years ago. The goal? To shed some light on the process of evolution and how it has changed...
The United States is home to five main species of foxes. These are the kit fox, gray fox, swift fox, arctic fox, and red fox. Out of these four species, the red fox is the most abundant throughout the United States. It’s estimated that there are red foxes in every state, and a total of...
Modern dog breeds haven’t quite caught up to the wolf when it comes to the size of their brains, but that size discrepancy is shrinking. The modern dog’s brain is growing larger, and it could be thanks to their interactions with humans. A new study, published in the journal Evolution, investigated brain size in both modern and ancient dog...
Spix’s macaw, a bright blue species of Brazilian parrot that starred in the children’s animation film Rio, has become extinct in the wild. It joins seven other bird species declared extinct by a new analysis of endangered animals – making them the first avians to have died out this decade. Scientists blame deforestation for the...
