At the Perth Zoo in Australia, thirteen baby Western Swamp Tortoises were born!!
The zoo has been working since 1989 to help conserve these tortoises because they're critically endangered.
They're rebuilding their wild population through their captive breeding/reintroduction program.
Since the program started all those years ago, over 800 tortoises have been born there and 600 of those have been successfully reintroduced into the wild!!
That's ahmayzing!
When these little guys are born they're so crazy small it's ridiculous!
We really realllllly want one! These little guys are painfully cute and we think they'd be perfect just crawling around our hands, all small and cute and tortoisey.
No word on the babe's name yet, but a critically endangered Sumatran Tiger cub has been born at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington.
Not only is this great for the Sumatran Tiger species in general, but this is great for people who love cute animal photos.
Though remember, they may be cute when they're babies, but once they start to get too big, you can't just flush them down the toilet like a New York City alligator myth. LOLz!
All jokes aside, just because we have the ability to do something, does it mean we should??
When it comes to extinct species, if we can get our hands on a sample of their DNA, there's a good chance we'd be able to bring them back.
Ethically though, is that something we should do?
Sure, they once lived on this planet, but their era has long since passed.
But we want a pet wooly mammoth!!
Check out the video (above) to hear a scientist argue for and against extinct species resurrection!
At the London Zoo, tortoise sex is the bee's knees. So much so…they have a pianist (get your mind out of the gutter!) serenading two reptiles during their seksi time!
Doesn't make sense?!?!?! Well let us (by us we mean scientists) explain!
Scientists once estimated that over 100 million species of plants and animals roam the earth. With a number that high, many believed that there was no way to discover and name all of them before some went extinct.
Not so fast!
Recently, researchers have found that this may not be the case. With the increase in taxonomists, it is possible to name all of the world's unknown species?!?!
Not only is the retired actress fresh off another mean spirited Twitter-based rant directed at InTouch magazine (and us!) about pictures they claim to have showing the former child star partying hAArd, NOW we hear she recently displayed some DIVA behavior while attempting to board a private jet in New Jersey!
You may recall Amanda does NOT have her driver's license because it was suspended during all her hit and run dramz, thus when the jet's pilot was checking the passengers' IDs and found that Amanda did NOT have one, he refused to allow her on the plane...
And according to sources, girl flipped out, screamed "I'm Amanda Bynes!" and tried to use GOOGLE as a substitute for identification verification!
The pilot apparently called his parent company to see if he could make an exception for the pierced-cheek cherub, but because TSA regulations require all plane passengers to carry ID, his hands were tied.
Celebs may be exempt from MANY of the rules regular peeps have to live by, but we always can count on the TSA to treat everyone like sheep equals, LOLz!
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