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Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia depressa), family Scincidae, Mid-west, Western Australia

photographs by Andrea Ruggeri

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When This Flower Blooms Every 50 Years, Famine Follows - by Scott Travers | Forbes - Innovation - Science | 10th/11/2024

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Finding Hope: Panji & the Javan Green Magpie - by Lucy Bailey, Producer/Director | BBC 1 - Asia - On Location

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Filming The Giant Flying Squirrels of Taipei - by Henry Lin, Researcher & Field Director | BBC 1 - Asia - On Location

Sneaky 'Squirrel Rick' Escapes Filming | The Making of Asia | BBC Earth

This flying squirrel has decided to make a home in an unexpected place – an elementary school. Join the #BBCEarthAsia team as they take on the challenging task of capturing the night flight on film, which isn't easy when sneaky squirrel Rick escapes their watch.

Vast deserts, dense jungles, polar landscapes & tropical seas are explored in this dazzling journey across the biggest continent, Asia. From the vast Arabian Desert to the unexplored jungles of Indonesia, the biting polar wilderness of Siberia to the tropical coral seas of the Indian Ocean. Dramatic wildlife stories are captured in extraordinary locations, including the Tibetan plateau, the Gobi Desert & the Himalayas. The series features rare bear species, rhinos & big cats, showcases the surprising variety of animals thriving in Asia's urban environments.

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty & natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining & thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare & exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

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Bhopal: A City Where Tigers Thrive - by Suman Raju, Cinematographer | BBC 1 - Asia - On Location

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Every Extinct Animal We Have Found In Permafrost! | NORTH 02

Permafrost has preserved some of the most remarkable remnants of the past, including woolly mammoths, steppe bison, and cave lions. In this video, we explore how these frozen remains provide a window into ancient ecosystems and human history. From perfectly preserved fur to the secrets hidden in ancient DNA, learn what these discoveries reveal about life during the Ice Age and beyond.

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When Neandertals Became Apex Predators | PBS Eons

Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals’ most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, it may have actually been what doomed them.

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Wings sourced from beekeepers dealing with the loss of their hives due to extreme weather, the pieces are made to memorialize the bees.

"A veil lifts between two worlds: light and dark; life and death; individual and union. It is worn in ceremony of transition. It is a fabric of both grief and celebration, made up of a community, a hive." by lucijockel

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do you have any blue or purple geckos?

Oh oh oh I have a favorite blue gecko!!!

Electric Blue Day Gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi), family Gekkonidae, endemic to the Kimboza Forest in Tanzania

ENDANGERED

photograph by Reptiles4all, Angi Wallace, Aaron Leite

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Rainbow Tree Snake (Gonyosoma margaritatus), family Colubridae, found in Malaysia, Singapore, and Borneo

photograph by Reptiles4all

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SAY NO TO PALM OIL

Did you know that most of us are fueling one of the world’s biggest ecological disasters and acts of primate genocide in history?

Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan. These two South-East Asian islands are extremely rich in life, containing around 20,000 flowering plant species, 3,000 tree species, 300,000 animal species and thousands more being discovered each year. Despite this amazing biodiversity and delicate web of species, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of one vegetable oil. That’s 6 football fields destroyed each minute. This vegetable oil is called palm oil, and is found in hundreds of the everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents… many of which you buy in your weekly shopping.

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Hong Kong Zoo Monkey Deaths: Here’s What We Know - by Rocio Marquez, Victor Sanjinez, Elizabeth Cheung | The South China Morning Post - Infographics | 8th/11/2024

12 Primates Died @ the HK Zoo & Botanical Gardens Since October 13. The Deaths are Believed to be Linked to Contaminated Soil From Nearby Construction Work.

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The Hunters & the Hunted - by Adolfo Arranz | The South China Morning Post - Infographics | 1st/07/2014

On April 1 the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica. Japan maintains that many whale species are not endangered, and last month Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to "increase efforts" to resume commercial whaling.

Click to view the full-size infographic in high resolution. 

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Shield Beetle - by Harriet Baxter

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Thylacoleo - by LEVIATAN-666

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“Fite me” Another coloured antelope sketch, this time a bongo - also a big favourite. This handsome fellow is of the eastern, or mountain kind. I love how males of this subspecies darken with age until they’re almost half black (when young they’re even brown underneath their stripes, like the ladies). Females on the other hand may actually lighten overtime.