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One of the ocean's oddest looking creature is in grave danger, literally. All sawfish populations are either endangered or in critical danger.

(Photo : Zoosnow on Wikimedia Commons) These small apes have relationships that can mirror those of humans, in that couples do cheat, breakup, and even "remarry." Relationships aren't easy, even for these monogamous animals. For the primate couples that do stay together, they groom each other and equally help raise their children. Puffins (Photo : ianpreston on Wikimedia Commons) "Puffins usually breed with the same mate each year," notes wildlife expert Richard James on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds website. Paired-up puffins don't necessarily stay together year-round, though...

Date Time Lorikeets might get their wings back, thanks to University Two hundred thousand dollars from the organisation will help fund various projects, from determining where wombats cross dangerous roads, to exploring the causes of disease in lorikeets and possums. A rainbow lorikeet. Credit: David Clode via Unsplash. Lorikeet paralysis syndrome and wombat road deaths are among the subjects of native animal research that will benefit from $200,000 worth of funding provided by the NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) to the University of Sydney. Researchers...

“England hath contrived to make the adopted foreigners her own,” wrote American horticulturist, businessman and the co-author of the Cactus and Succulent Journal, Robert Henry Foster, of the plants obtained from around the world to fill such borders. It is said the first herbaceous borders were designed at Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire, England, in 1845: “Amongst the finest in Europe the Gardens have been created over the last 250 years by successive generations of the same family.” In fact, right from the start they were always a reflection of a family or a person’s unique styl...