Researchers from floridaleatherbacks.com have been studying endangered leatherback sea turtles for some time now and this includes tagging and tracking individuals to monitor their movements. One such leatherback is named Isla and she was being tracked during the summer of 2018 in a joint project with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and NOAA Fisheries. The plan […]
The titanosaurs were the last surviving group of long-necked sauropods and roamed the earth from about 136 million years ago to 66 million years ago. Titanosaurs were the dominant herbivores of their time and, according to fossil evidence, they replaced dinosaurs like the diplodocids and brachiosaurids that dies out during the late Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous […]
There are literally hundreds of strange, interesting and fun facts about the animal kingdom, and here are just seven that I particularly like: 1. Dolphins use sonar to navigate. Dolphins have much better eyesight and hearing than humans and also have a highly developed biological sonar, or echolocation, as well as an ability to use […]
