'After 200 years, we're seeing this species again': The lost birds making a comeback in the Galapagos Islands

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...
The New York Times

Team Races Against Time to Save a Tangled Sea Lion in British Columbia

Experts tracked the sea lion, which had a rope around its neck, for over a month before they were able to catch up to it in Cowichan Bay, Canada. By Rylee Kirk A team of marine mammal experts had ...
The Daily Astorian

Sea lions keep eating the salmon in the Columbia River

In Astoria, sea lions are an endemic presence along the Columbia River banks and especially along the Port of Astoria’s East Mooring Basin. The port has experimented with several nonlethal methods for ...
The Spokesman-Review

Lawmakers debate killing more sea lions to keep them from eating salmon in Columbia River

Pacific Northwest sea lions got the spotlight in a Congressional hearing last week. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources spent nearly two and a half hours Wednesday ...
Oregonian

Sea lions keep eating the salmon in the Columbia River. Some lawmakers want to kill more of them

Pacific Northwest sea lions got the spotlight in a Congressional hearing last week. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources spent nearly two and a half hours Wednesday ...
AOL

Sea Lion Pup Wanders Into New Zealand Pub Like He's Ready to Throw Back a Pint

How's that old story go? A sea lion pup walks into a bar... No, really! Employees of a pub in New Zealand thought that a dog had snuck in until they took a closer look. This adorable little sea lion ...
Digi Times

Singapore's SEA-LION AI model built on Alibaba Qwen signals shift from Meta

Alibaba Group's open-source Qwen model, recognized as a key player in the AI market, now forms the foundation of Singapore's large language model (LLM) SEA-LION. The latest version, Qwen-SEA-LION-v4, ...
Computer Weekly

Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

From a smartphone platform helping migrant workers in Thailand file grievances in their native tongues to helping businesses navigate the nuances of local dialects, Southeast Asia’s first artificial ...
Computer Weekly

AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model

AI Singapore (AISG) and Alibaba Cloud have released a large language model (LLM) that has been improved to address the linguistic and cultural nuances of Southeast Asia. Dubbed Qwen-Sea-Lion-v4, it ...
Yahoo

Sea Lion Has Happy Hops During Her First Snow Storm Just Like a Little Kid

It’s almost time! I’m so ready for the first snow storm of the season. I can’t wait for the ground to be covered in all that white fluff. There are some places in the country that have gotten their ...
The New York Times

Gramma, a Galápagos Tortoise Older Than the San Diego Zoo, Dies at About 141

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House. By Victor Mather Tortoises are slow. While most of Earth’s creatures zip ...