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Representative Image of tiny snails thriving in Norfolk Island’s lush rainforest ecosystem ( AI Generrated Image) A tiny land snail once listed as extinct has made a remarkable return to Norfolk Island, after an unexpected discovery in 2020 triggered one of Australia’s first large-scale snail conservation and reintroduction programmes. The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail (Advena campbellii)…

Representative Image of mongooses impacting Jamaican wildlife, including birds and reptiles ( AI Generrated Image) In 1872, British planter William Bancroft Espeut released 9 small Indian mongooses into his sugar fields in Jamaica after importing them from India to control rats. Within 10 years, botanist Daniel Morris reported that the animals were abundant across the…

PC:  Conservation International Zinave National Park in Mozambique lost much of its wildlife during a 16-year civil war. Werner Myburgh of Peace Parks Foundation saw almost no animals there in 2014 and called the silence “like a graveyard”. Peace Parks Foundation says rewilding began in 2016 and 37 rhinos have arrived there since 2022. The…

Image Credit: Vard/Marine Insight Gabe Newell’s marine research organisation Inkfish has ordered a 162-metre deep-sea research vessel from Norwegian shipbuilder VARD. The ship, named RV11000, is valued at nearly €700 million, or about $816 million, and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2030. According to Marine Insight, the vessel will be designed…

Representative Image of eggshells being processed to extract calcium carbonate for bacterial growth experiments in a laboratory (AI Generated Image) A seventh grader from Palatine, Illinois, has turned eggshells into calcium carbonate crystals and used them to investigate whether the mineral can affect bacterial growth. Shrikari Punjala, a student at Quest Academy, is one of…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A study of soil brought back from the Moon’s far side by China’s Chang’e-6 mission has uncovered a form of metallic iron never before found in natural lunar samples. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the discovery after examining tiny particles preserved inside impact glass collected by the mission. The…

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick in England has discovered a rare second-generation planet orbiting the ashes of the dead star from which it was born, a smouldering white dwarf.White dwarfs are the collapsed dead cores left behind when stars run out of fuel. They are known to pull in nearby…

Image Credit: Wildlife Vagabond Six cheetahs have returned to Zambia’s Greater Luangwa Ecosystem after nearly three decades without confirmed sightings. The 3 males and 3 females were moved from South Africa to a remote part of North Luangwa National Park in July 2026, beginning a carefully planned effort to rebuild a wild population. The project…

PC: Florida International University (FIU News) A family’s love of boating and the ocean eventually grew into a foundation that connects children with marine science. Angela Rosenberg remembers sitting at the helm of her family’s sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, an experience that helped shape her future as a marine scientist. In 2016, she and…

A former cattle ranch in northern Costa Rica has become an unlikely refuge for wildlife. Near Tenorio Volcano National Park, Tapir Valley Nature Reserve has spent the past decade restoring land that was once used for grazing. Cattle were removed, trees planted and a lagoon restored, allowing a mixture of forest, wetlands and regenerating pasture…