Experts delighted as trail camera captures footage of creature not seen in over 100 years: ‘This is very exciting’

Experts delighted as trail camera captures footage of creature not seen in over 100 years: ‘This is very exciting’

Cleveland Metroparks marked a wildlife milestone that had conservationists and scientists buzzing: trail cameras recorded a fisherman, a medium-sized mammal in the weasel family — and it was verified as the first sightings of the species in Cuyahoga County in more than 100 years, Fox 8 reported. “This is very exciting,” reads the caption from … Read more

Trail camera captures tension between 2 rare predators: ‘This is freaky’

Trail camera captures tension between 2 rare predators: ‘This is freaky’

A trail camera in a Minnesota forest captured an intense scene between two elusive but fiercely territorial predators. The video, shared by Northern News Now, was taken by a trail camera at the Chik-Wauk Nature Center and Museum in northern Minnesota. (Viewers are advised to turn down the volume before watching the video, as it … Read more

Hidden trail camera captures unusual sighting of huge predator: ‘It makes my heart race’

Hidden trail camera captures unusual sighting of huge predator: ‘It makes my heart race’

Social media users were wowed by a repost of a huge carnivore roaming the frozen wilderness of Northern Canada. The trail camera footage, initially taken in 2021, was reposted by Yukon Wildlife Cams on Facebook. It shows a masked, snow-covered grizzly bear that treats the viewer in extreme close-up as it looks straight into the … Read more

‘This kind of discovery is what drives me’

‘This kind of discovery is what drives me’

A wildlife photographer was surprised to find that a trail camera he placed in a den was still working after more than a decade. Wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson claimed he left a camera behind in a bear den near Yellowstone more than 10 years ago, Newsweek reported. In a video posted on the Endless Venture … Read more

‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing’

‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing’

An amateur photographer in southern Spain captured something that almost no one expected to see. Ángel Hidalgo managed to photograph a white Iberian lynx near Jaén after spending months checking trail camera traps in the forest at sunrise. Hidalgo shared his image of the “white ghost of the Mediterranean forest” online, showing the lynx’s unusually … Read more

‘A glimpse into their secret lives’

‘A glimpse into their secret lives’

A conservation group is celebrating after a years-long effort to find an elusive cat known as the “ghost of the Andes” has finally paid off. Big Cat Rescue has posted footage on YouTube of a family of Andean mountain cats caught on film by a trail camera. In a post on Facebook, she described the … Read more