THIS work is an elaborate monograph on the distribution of the vegetation in the Hercynian district of Germany, and forms the sixth volume in Drs. Engler and Drude's series “Die Vegetation der Erde.” ...

A stroke of your hand along your dog's or cat's coat is the simplest way to say, "I love you." But the benefits go beyond a mutual exchange of affection. Petting and paying attention can also give you ...

A seal and 15 cormorants died in a Tasmanian salmon farm in the space of a week after becoming trapped inside, despite Tassal assurances that it would prevent wildlife interactions. The seal became ...

Snow leopards have spotted white-greyish fur that keeps them well insulated in cold weather – it can be 5cm long on their back and sides and almost 12cm long on their belly. A snow leopard's tail can ...

Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. It marks the first documented ...

Eine SpaceX-Starship-Rakete ist bei einem Routinetest am Boden in Texas explodiert. Damit reiht sie sich in eine Serie von Rückschlägen für Elon Musks Weltraumambitionen ein, zu denen auch Reisen zum ...

Fur seals like these, seen here in St. Paul in October 2024, are a critical subsistence food for the Unangax̂ communities in the Pribilof Islands. Research published last month in the journal Marine ...

I saw this with English sub-titles, and with the translated title, "Where The Sky Meets the Land". This is not a fast moving movie, but the pace is exactly correct for entering these people's word.

The Verein für die Schwarze Kunst (Association for the Black Arts), established in 2013, is dedicated to preserving traditional letterpress printing and typesetting. Over the past six years, it has ...

ELMIRA, New York — Bon forage, little buddies. Hundreds of loyal fans of P’Nut the rescue squirrel and Fred the racoon packed an upstate New York bar on Friday to memorialize the euthanized pets that ...

AT various times and by authorities of very varied reputation, but at tolerably frequent intervals, we are invited to consider the problems that are connected with the origin or the decay of the ...

After a heavy highside in FP1, Miguel Oliveira has been declared unfit at the Indonesian Grand Prix. The Portuguese rider sustained a fracture to his right wrist following a significant crash at Turn ...