Ecoticias

Long before tractors, a Shire horse named Sampson stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, and the tallest horse ever recorded still towers over today’s biggest living …

Sampson, a Shire foaled in 1846, stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, about 8 inches taller than Hugo, the tallest living ...
Ecoticias

Feral goats were shot out of a tiny Seychelles island over a century ago, and on Aldabra Atoll the hunt took 25 years and ended with a goat hunters had kept alive …

Feral goats vanished from Aride Island by 1920, the region's earliest mammal eradication; on Aldabra Atoll it took 25 years ...
Ecoticias

Taipei cut its old Zhongshan Bridge into 435 pieces to make room for floodwaters, and two decades later the city still has not settled where to put it back together

Taipei cut the 1933 arch into 435 pieces for flood control in 2002-03, and a rebuilding concept report is due in January 2027 ...