Tahrcountry Musings

The Earth's biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate. For people concerned about biodiversity here is something that is going to...

Caged tigers are often associated with dubious ancestry. They are treated like mongrels. But the latest analysis has come out with the fact ...

The world's first art gallery dedicated to botanical art works will be opened in London’s Kew Gardens today . Collections of the Royal...

The origins of the pygmy elephants of Borneo, found in a range extending from the northeast of the island into the Heart of Borneo, have bee...

IUCN and WWF have launched an exciting new monthly podcast called Wild Talk. This will usher in the latest news and features from the world ...

Analysis of chemical signatures preserved in fossil teeth of ancient ancestor of the elephants, which lived 37 million years ago, has come u...

A new EU-funded research project GEM-CON-BIO (Governance and Ecosystems Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity) shows how governanc...

Scientists have developed a new technique that pinpoints key biodiversity hotspots. The methodology identifies exact areas that support a w...

If you have a way with words and love nature here is an announcement from BBC you should read. Go through it and enter the competition D...

After a gap of nearly 100 years a Lynx (Lynx lynx) has appeared in Italian Alps. According to Italian authorities the Lynx has crossed over ...

Migrating moths have always puzzled scientists. They had no clue about how the moths avoid being blown away from their seasonal breeding gro...

New facts about bats are coming to light. A study by Margareta B Kalka, Adam R. Smit and Elisabeth K. V. Kalko has come up with the findi...

Representatives from 12 Asian nations, China, Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia...

Now this is awesome. Just when we thought we knew everything out come surprises. A group of British and Brazilian researchers have found out...

Did you know that elephants could store water for an emergency? For me it was new info. Amazing. Now read on. A BBC team has filmed e...

Scientists from the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and Nagoya University in Japan have identified the trigger for bird songs prior to mating....

Scimitar Horned Oryx ( Oryx dammah) have been extinct in Tunisia since the late 1970s. Efforts are on to release Oryx from American and Eur...

The path-breaking project “ Encyclopedia of Life ” has just added the first 30,000 species pages (1/60th of the total recorded species), in...

The secret world of bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, and 10 other cetacean species have been graphically described in the new IMAX film “...

A new study by Wildlife Conservation Society has found that jack rabbits living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have disappeared. Accor...