Animals

Injured Bald Eagle Gets a New Beak Created with a 3D Printer

Injured Bald Eagle Gets a New Beak Created with a 3D Printer

Thanks to developments in 3D printing technology, Beauty the Bald Eagle has a new beak and a new lease on life. The bird, who was shot in the face by a poacher in 2005, was rescued by Jane Fink Cantwell

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Artist Carlos Amorales Covers Entire Rooms with Thousands of Black Paper Moths

Artist Carlos Amorales Covers Entire Rooms with Thousands of Black Paper Moths

Amorales first displayed Black Cloud at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York with them in 2007. In 2008, he repeated the feat, displaying the moths again at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and again

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Santa Cruz Team Proposes That Sea Otters Could Help Slow Global Warming

Santa Cruz Team Proposes That Sea Otters Could Help Slow Global Warming

Sea Otter Image via Shutterstock Two researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz have suggested that sea otters could play a significant role in the fight against global warming. The duo

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“Hive” by Philip de los Reyes Brings Architectural Style to Backyard Beekeeping

“Hive” by Philip de los Reyes Brings Architectural Style to Backyard Beekeeping

Honey bees are some very hard-working ladies. Why not show them a little love with a beautiful, comfortable place to come home to after a hard day of pollinating? Industrial designer Philip de los Reyes

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Scotts Miracle-Gro Fined $12.5M For Knowingly Selling Bird Seed Tainted With Deadly Pesticides

Scotts Miracle-Gro Fined $12.5M For Knowingly Selling Bird Seed Tainted With Deadly Pesticides

Bird Feeder photo from Shutterstock Today the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was sentenced for eleven criminal violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that it plead

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Vladimir Putin Takes to the Skies in Bid to Lead Endangered Siberian Crane Migration

Vladimir Putin Takes to the Skies in Bid to Lead Endangered Siberian Crane Migration

As reported by the Guardian, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unlikely attempt yesterday to lead endangered cranes born in captivity in the Arctic north along their migration path to nesting sites

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US Fish and Wildlife Service Declares Gray Wolves in Wyoming No Longer Need Protection

US Fish and Wildlife Service Declares Gray Wolves in Wyoming No Longer Need Protection

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that the gray wolf population in Wyoming has recovered to the point where they no longer warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This

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Global Warming Contributes to the Adaptation and Spread of Deadly Fungus

Global Warming Contributes to the Adaptation and Spread of Deadly Fungus

Photo via Shutterstock Up-and-coming scientists, particularly those holding an environmental biology degree, are becoming increasingly familiar with the workings of Earth’s complex atmosphere. And

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8-Year Old Boy Finds Piece of Whale Vomit Worth $63,000, Will Use Money to Build Animal Shelters

8-Year Old Boy Finds Piece of Whale Vomit Worth $63,000, Will Use Money to Build Animal Shelters

Whale Photo from Shutterstock Who would have thought that vomit could be worth so much?! 8-year-old Charlie Naysmith from the UK thought he had simply found an interesting rock on the beach, but it

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Study Shows that Water and Food Shortages Could Force World Into Vegetarianism

Study Shows that Water and Food Shortages Could Force World Into Vegetarianism

On average, humans get about 20% of their protein from animal-based sources. But scientists warn that this may come to an end in the future. Water shortages and the world's increasing population mean that

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Israeli Theme Park Kfar Kedem Equips Donkeys With WiFi

Israeli Theme Park Kfar Kedem Equips Donkeys With WiFi

Donkey Photo from Shutterstock The Kfar Kedem theme park in Hashaya, Israel is a biblical tourist attraction that aims to simulate life in ancient Galilee in which visitors experience what life must

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Giant Elephant Made of Recycled Tires Roams the Earth for African Environmental Awareness

Giant Elephant Made of Recycled Tires Roams the Earth for African Environmental Awareness

Made from woven truck tires and a galvanized mild steel skeleton, this recycled beast is taking The Netherlands by storm. Measuring 10 feet tall and 18 feet in length, it is currently on display within

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Japanese Fish Show Record Levels of Radiation From Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Japanese Fish Show Record Levels of Radiation From Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Greenling Fish Photo from Shutterstock Inhabitat has reported on the many effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the surrounding environment - from mutated butterflies to alien species being

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Is Your Honey Counterfeit? Honey Detective Vaughn Bryant Can Tell

Is Your Honey Counterfeit? Honey Detective Vaughn Bryant Can Tell

Honeycomb photo from Shutterstock According to Food Safety News, a third or more of all honey consumed in the United States has been smuggled illegally into the US and may contain antibiotics and heavy

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Solar-Powered Wave Glider Robot Deployed to Track Great White Sharks in the Pacific Ocean

Solar-Powered Wave Glider Robot Deployed to Track Great White Sharks in the Pacific Ocean

The Wave Glider—a self-propelled, solar and wave-powered robot designed by Liquid Robotics—has been deployed to track great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean. Stanford University scientists are hoping

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Mutant Butterflies Found in Japan After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Mutant Butterflies Found in Japan After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

It's been well over a year since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. During early stages of the fallout, Japanese officials insisted that

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Thousands of Fish Die Across the Midwest Due to Scorching Summer Temperatures

Thousands of Fish Die Across the Midwest Due to Scorching Summer Temperatures

Photo from Shutterstock Throughout the Midwest, record temperatures mean trouble for wildlife as well as discomfort for human beings. Thousands of fish are dying in areas where water temperatures have

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Is DEFRA Not Doing Enough to Battle Bee-Killing Pesticides In the UK?

Is DEFRA Not Doing Enough to Battle Bee-Killing Pesticides In the UK?

It has long been theorized that the use of certain pesticides has contributed to the declining bee population around the world. In order to counter and further prevent the detrimental effect to the UK's

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Mantabot: University of Virginia Engineers Build a Robot that Looks and Swims Like a Ray

Mantabot: University of Virginia Engineers Build a Robot that Looks and Swims Like a Ray

There are few more graceful swimmers in the ocean than the ray - ”batiod” rays, such as mantas and stingrays, are quick, agile, and energy-efficient.  Engineers are using these fascinating

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Beyond Meat: Meatless Chicken So Real It’s Shocking

Beyond Meat: Meatless Chicken So Real It’s Shocking

Imagine the future: flying cars, tele-transportation and meatless chicken so good that you can’t tell the difference. Well, part of that future is here today. Beyond Meat, a developer of plant protein

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Caltech and Harvard Scientists Create Artificial Jellyfish From Rat Cells

Caltech and Harvard Scientists Create Artificial Jellyfish From Rat Cells

Scientists from Caltech and Harvard University have created Medusoid, a free swimming artificial jellyfish created from the heart muscle cells of a rat. The successful experiment suggests that it could be

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Harmony House Cat Shelter is Chicago’s First Net-Zero Commercial Building

Harmony House Cat Shelter is Chicago’s First Net-Zero Commercial Building

Designed by Farr Associates and dbHMS, Harmony House for Cats' brand new shelter is Chicago's first net-zero commercial building, and is pursuing LEED-NC Platinum certification. Adorned with a striking

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Canadian Genetic Scientists Breed Fruit Flies That Can Count

Canadian Genetic Scientists Breed Fruit Flies That Can Count

Fruit Fly Image from Shutterstock Thanks to a team of geneticists at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University, the fruit fly has become the first insect species to be taught numerical skills. The team

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LA Resident Finds Home Turned Into Hive By 50,000 Bees!

LA Resident Finds Home Turned Into Hive By 50,000 Bees!

Bee Colony Image from Shutterstock The problem of the ever-decreasing global bee population wasn't a concern for one Californian resident, who recently discovered that over 50,000 pollinators had

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New Report Warns That Strawberry Prices Could Rise 84 Percent Without Bees in Britain

New Report Warns That Strawberry Prices Could Rise 84 Percent Without Bees in Britain

Bee eating honey on spoon via Shutterstock Strawberry-loving Brits may be in for a bit of a rude awakening according to a new report released by the University of Reading and charity Friends of the

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RIP ‘Lonesome George’: World’s Last Pinta Giant Tortoise Dies

RIP ‘Lonesome George’: World’s Last Pinta Giant Tortoise Dies

We're sad to report that 'Lonesome George', the world's last Pinta giant tortoise died last night at the young age of 100 in the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. He was found dead in his

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Isabella Rossellini Plays Burt of Burt’s Bees in Bizarre Pollinator Week PSAs

Isabella Rossellini Plays Burt of Burt’s Bees in Bizarre Pollinator Week PSAs

Italian actress, filmmaker and veteran insect reenactor Isabella Rossellini has teamed up with Burt’s Bees to create a thoroughly bizarre set of PSAs titled “Burt Talks to the Bees,”

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Japanese Tsunami Dock Hits Oregon Beach With Army of Alien Species Attached!

Japanese Tsunami Dock Hits Oregon Beach With Army of Alien Species Attached!

An enormous Japanese dock that was cast out to sea by the tsunami last year has landed on an Oregon beach. While it is not the first piece of debris to reach the US, it has bought with it a veritable

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Taiwanese Birdhouses at DMY Berlin Are Inspired by Rice Farmers’ Relationship To Sparrows

Taiwanese Birdhouses at DMY Berlin Are Inspired by Rice Farmers’ Relationship To Sparrows

The interdependent relationship between sparrows and rice has always been important within Taiwan's Jenju village. The birds eat insects that otherwise would destroy the rice plantations, leaving huge

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