Robert Irwin Jnr was an adorable, freckly-faced kid who’d inherited his late dad’s enthusiasm and knowledge for saving wildlife. But now he has his sights set on Hollywood.
A giant bee the size of an adult thumb was found alive for the first time in nearly 40 years, The New York Times reported Thursday. The sighting, by a team of wildlife conservationists this January, proves that the world's largest bee had not gone extinct since it was last documented by scientists 38 years ago, though its habitat in a group of.
One of the rarest animals in the world, the saola is so elusive that no biologist has ever observed one in the wild. The critically endangered species was photographed via a camera trap in Vietnam in 2013, which was the first time the ‘Asian unicorn’ had been seen there in the wild for 15 years, the Daily Mail reported. The saola wasn’t even discovered as a species until 1992, the first to be added to the scientific roster of large mammals in more than 50 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund.