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The Hyrcanian forests are thought to have served as a refugium for certain species during changing climatic conditions. The Iranian edible dormouse ( Glis persicus ) is an endemic of this ecoregion, and is thought to have evolved when mid- Miocene climatic change led to the fragmentation of the ancestral Glis population, with one such ...
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region in western China. [1]
The tiger shark is the only species in its family that is ovoviviparous; its eggs hatch internally and the young are born live when fully developed. [7] Tiger Sharks are unique among all sharks in the fact that they employ embrytrophy to nourish their young inside the womb. The young gestate in sacks which are filled with a fluid that nourishes ...
A national park in Thailand has not one but three reasons to celebrate after confirming a rare Bengal tiger is raising a trio of cubs in the protected area. Park rangers first spotted a single cub ...
Hyrcania (/ h ər ˈ k eɪ n i ə /; Greek: Ὑρκανία Hyrkanía, [1] Old Persian: 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 Varkâna, [2] Middle Persian: 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭭 Gurgān, Akkadian: Urqananu) [2] is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
The last attack was in June 2023 when a tiger shark killed a Russian national in Hurghada, another coastal resort north of Marsa Alam. Vladimir Popov, 23, was eaten alive by a shark off a beach at ...
Apr. 27—Warning signs were posted today after the sighting of a large tiger shark at an East Oahu beach park. A non-aggressive 10- to 12-foot tiger shark was seen 50 yards offshore at Waimanalo ...
The forests in the north part of the country, which are known as the forests of the Hyrcanian or Caspian vegetation zone, wet forests, and industrial forests of the north, such as the green strip of the southern Caspian Sea and the northern profile of the Alborz mountain range from Astara to Glidaghi, approximately 800 km (500 mi) long, 20 to ...