AL AIN : As part of its efforts to protect endangered animals, Al Ain Zoo offers specialized programs to protect and care for many species of lizard. It keeps to the highest international standards and best practices for which the zoo has been known since its establishment. The zoo includes six species of lizards and … Read more
Approximately 61 percent of the world’s 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and the decline could have ecological consequences. These findings are according to a paper in the journal BioScience synthesizing the global status of turtles and their ecological roles by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, University of … Read more
An exploration to one of the deepest places on earth has captured rare footage of what is believed to be three new species of the elusive Snailfish. Involving a team of 40 scientists from 17 different nations, including Dr Alan Jamieson and Dr Thomas Linley from Newcastle University, UK, the expedition to the Atacama Trench … Read more
For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by University of British Columbia zoologists has found. The study — the first broad review of its kind — analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects and … Read more
The COMRA also released a series of videos showing activities of rarely-seen deep sea creatures in the seamounts during an international conference hosted by the association and International Seabed Authority in Qingdao City of east China’s Shandong Province, scheduled between Monday and Tuesday. The video shows a shoal of red deep sea shrimps moving together; … Read more
