Mar 11, 2021 10:00 PM EST
The fowl, known as Lady Amherst s pheasant, is a sight to see. It has a red crest and plumage that is brilliantly colored in orange, blue, green, and purple. Its tail feather is long and exaggerated in a black and white pattern, measuring 3 to 4 feet in length.
(Photo : Paul Reynolds on Wikimedia Commons)
Lady Amherst s Pheasant
The birds were introduced to England in the 1890s by Lady Sarah Amherst, who brought them to her estate from their native China and Myanmar. By 1990 there were only about 20 of the pheasants left in the U.K. The last Lady Amherst s was believed to have been discovered and photographed in 2015.
Mar 03, 2021 11:12 AM EST
Forest scincid lizard on Christmas Island and 12 animals on the list, including the desert bettong, large cheeked jumping mouse, and arena barred wallaby. The government of Australia has formally acknowledged that 13 of the endemic species went into extinction and this includes 12 mammals and the earliest reptile known to have vanished since the colonization by the Europeans.
(Photo : Egor Kamelev)
The increase of the dozen species of mammal species shows the inevitable position of Australia as the capital for the world mammal extinction, raising the entire number of species known to have gone into extinction to 34.
No one out of the 13 seems like a surprise. Almost all of the species extinctions are memorable, with most of them vanishing between the 1850s and 1950s. But the record also comprises two species that got lost, the pair from Christmas Island in the ocean of Indian over the last decade.
Ornithologists considered the black-browed babbler as a species gone extinct. And then suddenly, two naturalists spotted it in the native Indonesian forest, Ornithologists across the world are overjoyed.
Since its discovery in the 1800s the
Meidum Geese has been described as “Egypt’s Mona Lisa ,” said Dr. Romilio. According to the new study, Nefermaat was the eldest son of pharaoh Sneferu of Egypt s Fourth Dynasty: “a vizier, royal seal bearer and a prophet of Bastet, feline-headed goddess of protection.” The now extinct species of goose depicted in his tomb had “red, black and white markings on its face, grey wings with white marks and a speckled red breast distinct from modern red-breasted geese.”
Supposedly extinct goose species as depicted in ancient Egyptian painting, including the so-called Meidum Geese, at the tomb of Nefermaat and Itet. (