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6 days ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
The Donator wreck, also known as the Prosper Schiaffino, lies off the south-east coast of the French island of Porquerolles in the Mediterranean Sea. The cargo ship met its fate in 1945 when it struck a mine while transporting wine and other goods from Algeria to France. Now resting upright at depths of around 40–50 metres, the wreck has become one of the region’s most iconic dive sites, offering a poignant glimpse into maritime history alongside thriving marine life.
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1 week ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Scientists have discovered two new species of crocodile living on remote Caribbean islands off the east coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Until now, experts believed that the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) was a single species, ranging from Mexico to Venezuela and across the Caribbean.
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1 week ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
The giant moray eel is the largest of all morays, an apex ambush predator that dwells in tropical reefs from the Red Sea to the Pacific. With leopard-like markings, powerful jaws and a secret set of inner teeth, it is a fearsome hunter – but there is much more to the giant moray than first meets the eye. As its name suggests, the giant moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) is the largest of all moray species by mass, growing to an impressive 3 metres in length and weighing over 30 kilograms.
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1 week ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Annamite Mountains, on the border between Vietnam and Laos, lives a mysterious, horned creature. At least, that's where it used to live. Nicknamed the 'Asian unicorn' for its elusiveness, the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is a striking antelope-like mammal that has barely been glimpsed since it was first discovered in 1992. The last confirmed sighting in the wild was over a decade ago, in 2013. Could the saola already be extinct?
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1 week ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
When a team of palaeontologists uncovered a fossilised tooth and two vertebrae on a newly cut roadside in the Dominican Republic in 2023, they knew they had found something important. The fossils belonged to a sebecid, the last of a strange, mostly land-dwelling crocodilian group called Notosuchia, which originated in the age of dinosaurs. Unlike their modern relatives, most sebecids lived entirely on land, running swiftly after prey on their four long limbs.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Daniel Graham
10 hours agoNew May ALDI Finds are perfect to kick off summer entertainingAs the temperatures rise and the summer fun is on the horizon, the new May ALDI Finds have everyone ready to eat, drink, and be merry. Ready to fill …16 hours agoSherri Shepherd calls out moviegoers filling up “Sinners” morning screenings: 'Does anybody have a job over here?'Sinners has been the hottest movie ticket at the box office for the past two weeks — and it's starting to get on Sherri Shepherd's last nerve.
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2 weeks ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Argentina has announced the creation of Patagonia Azul Provincial Park, a vast marine sanctuary in the southern province of Chubut. Spanning an incredible 729,000 acres (300,000 hectares) – an area roughly the size of Yosemite National Park – this is Chubut’s very first marine provincial park, and it's set to protect one of the most wildlife-rich corners of the South Atlantic Ocean. Patagonia Azul, or 'Blue Patagonia', is a wild, windswept coastline in south-east Argentina.
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2 weeks ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Cycles of light and dark impact almost all living things, and events such as eclipses can cause noticeable changes in how they act and function. While these impacts are well studied in animals, we still know very little about how plants respond to solar eclipses. Now, in a new study carried out in Italy's Dolomite Mountains, researchers have found that spruce trees actively anticipate these eclipses.
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2 weeks ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Earlier this year, an enormous iceberg spanning around 209 square miles (510 square kilometres) calved from the George VI Ice Shelf, a floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. The event presented a unique opportunity for deep-sea researchers on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) to explore a vast area of ocean that had never been accessible to humans.
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2 weeks ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham
Few animals are as captivating as echidnas – and their young, known affectionately as puggles, are even more curious. There are four living species of echidna in the world. They are found in Australia and New Guinea, and are one of only two types of monotreme – mammals that lay eggs rather than giving birth to live young (the other one is the platypus). After laying a single leathery egg, the mother echidna places it into her pouch, where it hatches about 10 days later.
