List of Animals articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are Hong Kong’s Pink Dolphins In Danger?
Hong Kong's native population of pink dolphins are losing habitat as the city expands further into the sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bushwalkers in Australia Might Have Just Found the Wooliest Sheep of All Time
A sheep found in Australia this week is so woolly that it may set records in the sheep population there.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY NICOLAS CHEVIRON - Archaeologists use wheel barrows in a massive archaeological dig in Istanbul, on April 21, 2008. Archaeologists have exhumed in the ancient port of Byzantin 31 seagoing vessles that constitute, according to the researchers, the larget medieval fleet ever unearthed. AFP PHOTO / MUSTAFA OZER (Photo credit should read MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Queensland Is Killing Huge Numbers of Sharks With Little Evidence It Keeps Swimmers Safe
In Queensland, Australia, sharks
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 So an American Dentist Shot Cecil the Lion. Now What?
An American dentist shot a lion in Zimbabwe. Could he really be extradited to Zimbabwe?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Surreal Images of Hippos and Bears Caught in Devastating Georgian Floods
12 people are dead in flooding that devastated Tbilisi's zoo.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?
Why looking at a map of news headlines could help us see critical patterns and trends in wildlife crime.
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OSLO, NORWAY - JULY 25: Norwegian police stand guard outside the court house as Anders Behring Breivik who confessed to Norway's worst act of terror appears in a closed court on July 25 ,2011 in Oslo, Norway. So far seven people have been confirmed dead from the bomb attack and 86 on Utoya. Although Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to the killings, claiming that he acted alone, he has not pleaded guilty. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Johnny Depp’s Dogs Narrowly Escape Death at the Hands of Australian Bureaucrats
Pistol and Boo are en route home to the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Zealand Sheep Leaving on a Jet Plane, Don’t Know When They’ll Be Baaaack Again
New Zealanders are pretty irked that their government spent millions in taxpayer money to air-freight about 1,000 sheep to Saudi Arabia and set up a farm there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do These Two Chimps Have More Rights Than a Woman in Saudi Arabia?
Two chimpanzees in New York were granted a right to habeas corpus. But in Saudi Arabia, women still need to be accompanied to a court by a male family member.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Good Mr. Spock dog, evil Mr. Spock dog
Tom Ricks shares one of his favorite dog photos.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week: What dogs in Kabul are reading these days
This week's war dog is a smart one.