Daniel Graham

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham

For the first time, conservationists have documented a rare Egyptian vulture breeding – and feeding its chick – in the dramatic cliffs of Sharaan National Park, AlUla – an ancient desert oasis in the north-west of Saudi Arabia. Vultures of the world: an expert guideAre there vultures in Europe? Poisoned, electrocuted and illegally killed – now Europe's smallest vulture is fighting backWhich animals eat bone, and how do they do it?

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham

Scientists have discovered 5,700 years of storm records hidden within sediments at the bottom of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean Sea. Located off the coast of Belize in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, the Great Blue Hole is a 125-metre-deep sinkhole formed when an ancient island cave collapsed – and subsequently flooded – after the last ice age.

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham

In the heart of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert lies the Darvaza gas crater, often referred to as the 'Door to Hell'. The crater was formed in 1971 when Soviet geologists accidentally collapsed a natural gas chamber while drilling. Fearing the release of poisonous gas, they set it alight, expecting it to burn out quickly. But their plan didn't work, and the crater has remained lit ever since. Or so the story goes – Turkmenistan has no official record of the incident.

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham

Back in 2005, the remains of an animal were found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a vast and rugged landscape in southern Utah, USA. They were put into storage at the Natural History Museum of Utah, where they remained for almost 20 years. It wasn’t until a recent collections survey at the museum that the bones re-emerged, and palaeontologists realised they had been hiding a big secret: they belonged to a giant goblin-like lizard that had never been documented before.

1 week ago | discoverwildlife.com | Daniel Graham

Biscayne Bay has been identified as a crucial habitat for critically endangered great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran), supporting them from birth through adulthood, according to a new study. The eight-year study shows that juvenile great hammerhead sharks depend on the shallow waters of bay – sheltered in the heart of the Miami metropolitan area – during their earliest and most vulnerable years.