1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (377+ words) The gap does not mean the animal was absent from the Osa Peninsula for that entire period. Jaguars range across large territories, and even an extensive camera network covers only a fraction of the forest at any moment. What the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (345+ words) The animal was calm as long as the crowd kept its distance, Soto said, lying placidly on the sand while dozens of people watched and filmed. That changed when people pushed in closer. Soto said some visitors came within roughly…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (328+ words) Winds, currents and waves may then have pushed already weakened crabs toward shore. Taken together, scientists believe these conditions may have depleted the animals’ energy reserves and made it more difficult for them to swim and remain in favorable waters....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (363+ words) The rare blue octopus that surprised scientists has returned to the Galápagos Islands. The specimen, about the size of a golf ball, will be preserved at the Charles Darwin Research Station, which houses an extensive collection representing the archipelago’s extraordinary…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (375+ words) Costa Rica Targets Wildlife Trafficking With New Tourist Campaign The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Costa Rica Targets Wildlife Trafficking With New Tourist Campaign Costa Rica has started a new campaign warning travelers not to remove wildlife,…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (254+ words) Currently unknown numbers of wild animals are illegally pulled from Costa Rica’s forests, rivers and coastlines every year, according to the Attorney General’s Office, and the pipeline moving them has increasingly shifted from backwoods trappers to Facebook sellers and encrypted…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (300+ words) A small ray the color of a gold coin turned up in shallow water off Guanacaste, and researchers say nothing like it has ever been recorded in its family. The animal was a juvenile female blotched round ray, a common…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (391+ words) If a pelican walks toward you on the beach, something is wrong with that bird. Don’t touch it. Sick, disoriented and dead pelicans have been turning up along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast since late June. Two months on, nobody has…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (423+ words) Butterflies developing under the hottest conditions were less likely to survive. Those that did survive generally took longer to emerge and had wings that reflected less light, making their famous blue color appear less brilliant. In one of the populations…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (373+ words) Certain things are guaranteed when camera trapping in Costa Rica. Some things are magnificent, for instance, with enough time and even the smallest patch of forest, you’re going to record an ocelot. Other things are downright infuriating, for example, with…...