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Illinois Becomes First State to Recognize ‘Rewilding’ Wetland Protection As federal safeguards erode, state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for restoring and protecting wetlands left vulnerable by Clean Water Act rollbacks.

www.governing.com/policy/illin...

Leopard matriarch builds four-generation dynasty Defying time and odds, an aging matriarch of one of the world's rarest big cats is living a tale of survival in North China's Taihang Mountains.

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202601/23/...

It's easy to think of #goblinsharks as "those deep sea weirdos from far away places" but we have them over here In U.S. waters, too. This one was caught off the #Florida keys

www.southernfriedscience.com/florida-fish...

Five detained over alleged hunting in Javan leopard habitat Indonesian authorities have detained five people in connection with the alleged illegal hunting and shooting of an endangered Javan leopard in the Gunung Sanggabuana conservation forest in West Java, ...

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The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene | PNAS Lions and tigers, as dominant apex predators, likely became competitors when lions expanded from Africa into Eurasia approximately one million year...

New study suggests that late Pleistocene Japan use to be home to cave lions rather than tigers:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thailand releases bred leopard sharks to boost wild population Thailand has begun its first effort to "rewild" Indo-Pacific leopard sharks, releasing aquarium‑bred pups off the southern Maiton Island in a bid to revive a species that has sharply declined in the w...

🦈 #shark
#Thailand is releasing captive-bred
Indo-Pacific #leopardsharks near #MaitonIsland "revive a species that has sharply declined in the wild due to overfishing and habitat loss."

Click through to watch a video from Reuters about this

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Sea turtles may be more resilient to global warming than we thought An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles from hatching as female due to climate change – a threat that was feared to lead to population collapse

Sea turtles may be better able to cope with climate change than we thought. There are concerns that the reptiles face extinction because warmer conditions will make most #turtle eggs develop into females. But the animals have a genetic safety net. 🧪 🦑 🐢

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

Happy Penguin Awareness Day!

Photos taken at:
Bronx Zoo (little blue penguin)
Detroit Zoo (king, chinstrap, and southern rockhopper penguin)
London Zoo (Humboldt penguin)
Whipsnade Zoo (northern rockhopper penguin)

I've written a bit about writing, given that I've now published numerous books and hundreds of articles. One point I emphasise is that good writing takes a-g-e-s. It's painfully slow. I keep count of what I get done in a day and it might be shocking how little gets done, per day, on some projects.

Screengrabbed comment explaining how animals like crocodiles are not living fossils at all.

Over on Instagram, Slash shared a reel from a content creator all about the 'living fossils' concept. Whenever someone promotes this stuff, it's basically always misleading and only partly correct. I posted this comment...

This is of course not counting the Southeast African cheetahs that are being used as proxies in India. Strangely, there’s no evidence of Northeast African cheetahs despite them being geographically far closer than the Northwest African subspecies.

Cave Cheetahs Raise Hope for Species Recovery The cheetah's place in Arabic cultural heritage now proved, will species restoration follow?

I was not expecting this….DNA analysis seems to indicate the historical presence of Northwest African cheetahs in Saudi Arabia! Turns out the Asiatic cheetah was once not the only subspecies to inhabit Asia!

richardconniff.substack.com/p/cave-cheet...

Can Tigers Become Climate Refugees? Climate change is reshaping the lives of wildlife, including one of the most iconic and endangered species on Earth, the tiger.

conservewildcats.org/2026/01/06/t...

Amur tiger cubs rescued in Russia's Far East after surviving freezing cold Four Amur tiger cubs, also known as Siberian tigers, were spotted surviving in freezing temperatures without their mother in eastern Russia.

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Saudi Arabia to reintroduce lions after more than 100 years The Royal Reserve in Saudi Arabia is planning to release Asiatic lions into the wild a century after the species was hunted to extinction

www.agbi.com/tourism/2026...

From Extinction to Abundance: The Cretan Wildcat's Remarkable Return - GreekReporter.com The Cretan wildcat, known locally as the furogatos, is the island’s only wild cat and the largest carnivore on Crete.

greekreporter.com/2025/12/24/c...

An edit I made of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Essentially tried to make my own intro utilizing the intro music from The Future is Wild.

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YouTube video by Phylum Studios World Wildlife Day 2025

A short edit I made it to celebrate #worldwildlifeday2025

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YouTube video by Phylum Studios New Pangolin Species| World Pangolin Day 2025

In celebration of #worldpangolinday2025
I uploaded my first short on Phylum Studios, covering a newly described species of Asian pangolin. Be sure to check it out!!!

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