Scientist’s simple explanation for Loch Ness Monster mystery
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Scientist’s simple explanation for Loch Ness Monster mystery

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More like the Flock Ness Monster. A Scottish naturalist who has investigated the Loch Ness Monster mystery for a half-century believes there’s some fowl play when it comes to sightings of the perplexing plesiosaur. “Of course, there are long-necked creatures on Loch Ness…

More than 40 monkeys on the loose in US town after escaping lab | Wildlife News

More than 40 monkeys on the loose in US town after escaping lab | Wildlife News

Police describe escapees, who are not carrying disease, as ‘harmless and a little skittish’, posing ‘almost no danger to public’. More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research lab in a small town in the United States after an employee failed to properly shut an enclosure. The 43 rhesus macaque…

Why is an Ecuador forest petitioning for the rights to a song? | Explainer News

Why is an Ecuador forest petitioning for the rights to a song? | Explainer News

A petition has been submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise Los Cedros cloud, an Ecuadorian forest roughly 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) in size, as a co-creator of a musical composition. This proposal aims to grant legal recognition to nature’s role in artistic creation, potentially setting a new precedent in…

Heat-related deaths and diseases rising due to climate change, experts warn | Climate Crisis News

Heat-related deaths and diseases rising due to climate change, experts warn | Climate Crisis News

Climate change is raising temperatures to dangerous levels, causing more deaths and the spread of infectious diseases, while worsening drought and food security, a new report by health experts has warned. In 2023 – the hottest year on record – the average person experienced 50 more days of dangerous temperatures…

This Short-Horned Lizard Squirts Toxic Blood From its Eyes

This Short-Horned Lizard Squirts Toxic Blood From its Eyes

The Greater Short-Horned Lizard, scientifically known as Phrynosoma hernandesi, is a remarkable reptile found across North and Central America. This unique lizard has earned the nickname “horny toad” due to its flattened body shape and distinctive spiky horns, which give it an appearance more akin to amphibians than traditional reptiles….

Should we all stop eating salmon? Why it’s suddenly become endangered | Food News

Should we all stop eating salmon? Why it’s suddenly become endangered | Food News

Atlantic salmon populations in England and Wales have plummeted to unprecedented lows, according to the Atlantic Salmon Stock Assessment for 2024, a report published this month by the United Kingdom Environment Agency and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. According to the report by the two government agencies, a…

Excitement as two new pandas arrive in US from China | Wildlife News

Excitement as two new pandas arrive in US from China | Wildlife News

The bears, part of China’s ‘panda diplomacy’, will stay in DC’s National Zoo under a 10-year agreement. China has sent two giant panda bears to the United States to be housed in Washington, DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo, in a rare diplomatic overture between the two countries. The three-year-old pandas –…

Kenya relocates 50 elephants to a larger park as population thrives | Wildlife News

Kenya relocates 50 elephants to a larger park as population thrives | Wildlife News

Kenya is suffering from a problem, albeit a good one: the elephant population in the 42-square-kilometre (16-square-mile) Mwea National Reserve, east of the capital Nairobi, has flourished from its maximum capacity of 50 to a whopping 156, overwhelming the ecosystem and requiring the relocation of about 100 of the largest…

Fisher, mammal once eliminated in Pa., seen outside Pittsburgh
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Fisher, mammal once eliminated in Pa., seen outside Pittsburgh

Bigfoot might have some competition. An elusive and lesser-known forest predator once eliminated from Pennsylvania was spotted on a trail cam outside Pittsburgh over the summer. A fisher, an omnivorous and large mammal that’s part of the weasel family, was snapped by the camera while it walked over a grassy…

What is the deadly Marburg virus and where has it spread? | Health News

What is the deadly Marburg virus and where has it spread? | Health News

Rwanda is fighting its first outbreak of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus which was first reported in late September. As of Thursday, 11 people were reported to have died of the virus in Rwanda. The health minister announced the country will begin clinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments. So what…