Their cheeky chip-snapping, swooping and aggressive squawking have given seagulls a reputation as a scourge on coastal towns, both terrorizing unsuspecting tourists and enraging residents. And as the marauding birds have ventured inland and established urban colonies, cities have deployed spikes, nets and even birds of prey as deterrents. Now Worcester city councilors appear to … Read more
Your support helps us tell the story Read more This election is still a dead race according to most polls. In a fight with such thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support allows us to keep sending reporters to the story. The Independent … Read more
Fallout 76’s waterways have typically never been places you want to spend any time in because you know they’re mostly irradiated and all, but this looks set to change when fishing comes to Bethesda’s online Fallout game in a future update. Tonight’s Fallout Day broadcast only included the briefest of teasers that fishing would be … Read more
More coots were killed in 2023 than in any other year on record, a report has found. The RSPB’s Birdcrime report also found that at least 1,344 individual raptors were stalked in the UK between 2009 and 2023, and that 75% of people convicted of raptor stalking offenses in that period were linked to the … Read more
Your support helps us tell the story Read more This election is still a dead race according to most polls. In a fight with such thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support allows us to keep sending reporters to the story. The Independent … Read more
Tthe dramatic sea cliffs, cliffs and stacks of Rathlin Island, County Antrim, rise more than 200 meters above the Atlantic Ocean and host one of Britain’s largest seabird colonies, including hundreds of endangered puffins, attracting up to 20,000 birders and tourists per the year. On a spectacularly sunny day in September, the cliff faces are … Read more
CNN — Soaring high into the sky, paragliders are used to enjoying fascinating aerial views of some of the world’s most famous ancient landmarks. But the landmarks don’t usually have dogs hanging out on top of them. While flying over Egypt’s famous Great Pyramids at sunrise earlier this week, American paraglider Marshall Mosher and other … Read more
Monday Herbie is now 13 years old. Which, depending on how you measure it, puts him somewhere in the 80s in dog years. For his last birthday, friends gave him some treats that claim to improve his joints. Now I took glucosamine for years in an attempt to make my knees marginally less creaky and … Read more
Breakthroughs sometimes appear in unexpected places. The researchers working on the international push to bring back the thylacine say they found theirs in a bucket at the back of a cupboard in a Melbourne museum. It contained an astonishingly well-preserved head of the extinct marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. “It was literally a … Read more
La month, the sick killer whales in the Pacific gave researchers a rare moment of hope: a new calf was seen swimming with its mother. Until then, only one calf had appeared this year, only to die a few months later. But in mid-October, this new calf, named L128, also appeared to be succumbing to … Read more