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You can just look at some animals and know that dinosaurs were very real (well, if fossils haven’t persuaded you). Take this crocodile in Australia: at 18 feet long (ish… I don’t think anyone has gotten close enough to measure him), Brutus is a monster by anyone’s standards. Tourists to Australia’s Northern Territory pay money for a crocodile boat tour for a chance to see one of these giants up close, and this particular group got a great experience. This photo went through a ridiculous amount of skepticism but it appeared in Time magazine’s pictures of the year for 2011, and that’s good enough for me. It helps that Photoshop experts also think it’s real, there’s video of Mr. Brutus, and you can apparently see the reflection of the monster croc in one of the boat passenger’s sunglasses, not to mention anyone can go to Australia’s Northern Territory, buy this same crocodile boat tour, and have a pretty decent chance of seeing their star character for themselves, but I figure Time magazine has a handle on which images are faked and which are real.

Although the general trend of poaching in Africa is decreasing there is still one country where poaching Rhino is prevalent. Zimbabwe has never had a good record when it comes to poaching but now is the time it needs to stop as there are very few Rhinos left in the wild in Zimbabwe.

The Galapagos Islands lie over 1,000km off the coast of South America’s Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, almost exactly on the equator. Charles Darwin visited the islands in 1835 on his voyage in The HMS Beagle. The islands’ nature proved to be of great importance in the development of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

1. Did you know that male drone bees do not work at all, and in fact the only work they do is to mate? 2. Did you know that in fact drones do not even have a sting?

Remember when you were a kid how your mom told you, “Don’t pick up the baby bird that fell out of the tree to put it back in the nest or it’s mom will abandon it. Because birds are afraid of human scent.” That’s not true. Most birds don’t have a very good sense of smell and could not detect human scent.

Snowdrops sprinkle the hedgerows and a few brave daffodils proudly nod their bright yellow heads. You can hear the sound of birdsong -it seems like spring is here! Winter can be a difficult time for birds, even if the weather seems mild, they have to eat enough food, in the short daylight hours, to build up vital energy reserves needed to survive the night.

The majority of people think of a shark as a violent huge predator with super sharp teeth ranging the ocean in search of food. But in fact there are more than 400 very different species. Nine hundred meters below the ocean surface lives the smallest shark: Dwarf Lanternshark.

Snapping turtles are powerful, enduring and beautiful creatures. In an effort to help the population, we have begun capturing turtle hatchlings and raising them for the first few years. This ensures that they will survive to adulthood and go on to reproduce. Before we can capture the turtles we must find a nest and that is difficult.

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic cattle disease found worldwide. Human infection risks can be effectively eliminated by pasteurizing (heat-treating) milk, but controlling cattle TB is not so easy. Some countries have controlled or (possibly) eliminated cattle TB by routinely testing and culling infected cattle. However, this has been much less successful in Ireland and Great Britain where wild mammals, especially badgers, provide a TB reservoir. In an attempt to eradicate cattle TB, these countries have a policy of ‘test and cull’ plus badger reduction or elimination. We ask here whether this approach been effective, and if not, why is it still used?

The honey bee has lived with humans for thousands of years. According to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, there was an amber fossilized of the world’s oldest known bee. The amber itself has been dated to be 80 million years old, but the bee itself might be more than 65 million to 135 million years old.