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After five months of receiving care at the Aquarium of the Pacific and Heal the Bay Aquarium, a group of rescued northern tidewater gobies has returned to the wild in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Read more about this collaborative effort:
The fish, which were rescued after the Palisades Fire, play an important role in the local ecosystem
Buddy. HOW did you get in the basement? You are lucky we found you, there is no way out of there! The frog skeletons attest to that...
08/2025, Germany
Baby newt
Meet the pangolin: This adorable creature plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems, yet it’s the most trafficked mammal on this planet. They’re hunted at an alarming rate, with over 100,000 poached every year.
For our 22nd mission, we traveled deep into Vietnam’s jungle to help rescue, rehabilitate, and release pangolins back into their natural habitat.
With Trishala Naidu on the ground and Markus Gilles in the studio, we’re reporting on the struggles of pangolins and how we’re helping to save them.
Chapters
0:00 Meet the pangolin
1:51 The most trafficked mammal in the world
3:29 Preparing the release
5:10 The journey begins
6:50 Why are pangolins important?
7:20 Our support
8:26 The journey continues
10:12 The first steps into the wild
i found a gopro for dirt cheap at a flea market, my partner fixed it up and guess what it's used for now 🤠
Balkan crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi)
Bistritsa, Bulgaria
you can see him swim so well!!!
Pickles!
He's an octopus called Pickles and will have been released back to Neah Bay in Washington by the time I return to the Seattle Aquarium.
At the Seattle Aquarium, they have an octopus on display for a few months, captured from nature and nurtured until they mature. Maturation is marked by increased activity, an indicator that the octopus is ready to reproduce and is looking for a mate. When they reach this active stage, they are released back to where they were captured where they may live out their natural life.
Pickles is a male Great Pacific Octopus, the largest species of octopus. They live three to five years but in that time can grow to be over ninety or even a hundred pounds. Pickles is guessed to be about sixty to sixty-five in these photos. Sexing an octopus is surprisingly simple, a male octopus will not have suckers on the tip of his third arm, whist a female octopus will.
I am sad to see Pickles go but happy to have been able to volunteer with him to educate and inspire aquarium visitors on all things Great Pacific Octopus. If you're ever in the area, I promise it's worth the visit, and maybe I'll get to say hi.
I got to do the first release today! A baby bunny!
American Bullfrog (Rana (Aquarana) catesbeiana) Tampines Quarry, 11th September 2016
Two juvenile American Bullfrogs were found along the shore of the lake in Tampines Quarry. They were alive when first spotted, but had died by the time they were seen again an hour later. The other individual was featured in an earlier instalment of Daily Decay.
Young, newly metamorphosed American Bullfrogs are widely sold in aquarium shops in Singapore as live food for large predatory fishes, although it's possible that these juveniles are also purchased to be used as bait for anglers, or are deliberately released by well-meaning people who do not understand the ecological harm that can result from releasing potentially invasive species.
Animals & Plants of Singapore
Non-indigenous frogs in Singapore
The Tide Chaser: Amphibians (Phylum Chordata: Class Amphibia) of Singapore
Ecology Asia
AmphibiaWeb
Amphibian Species of the World
USGS NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe
Global Invasive Species Database
IUCN Red List
Animal Diversity Web
National Geographic Animals
The emerging amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis globally infects introduced populations of the North American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
Prediction and validation of the potential global distribution of a problematic alien invasive species — the American bullfrog
Amphibian Pathogens in Southeast Asian Frog Trade
