Living things and where they live

Wild storks are flying again in Japan. At the end of July 2024, there were 476 storks living in the wild.

A rare mole has been found in the Shirakami Mountains for the first time. Hirosaki University, a national university in northern Japan, announced this on September 2, 2026.

Two giant pandas have left China to live in the United States. Their names are Ping Ping and Fu Shuang.

Scientists from China have found the bones of many whales at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Some of the bones are more than five million years old.

Scientists have found a new kind of amoeba that can grow in very hot water. They named it Incendiamoeba cascadensis, and they call it the "fire amoeba." A team supported by NASA, the space agency of the United States, wrote about it in the science magazine Cell on Tuesday, September 22.

Two sea turtles have laid eggs on beaches in Huntington Beach, a city in California in the United States. NOAA, the US government agency for the ocean and weather, says this is the first time anyone has recorded a sea turtle laying eggs on the West Coast of the United States.

People in Shiogama, a city in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Japan, have reported seeing a bear. The bear was seen near Shinhama, an area of the city.

Scientists in Japan have found a new species of deep-sea eel. Fumihito Tashiro of the Hokkaido University Museum and Munehiro Takami of Tokai University led the study.

A scientist in Japan has found a new kind of small sea animal. It lives on the tail fins of fish.

Scientists in Japan have found a new way to check the health of a forest. They count small beetles that fly into a special trap.

Hachioji, a city in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, said on Wednesday, September 16 that a bear was seen on Mt. Takao.