Scientists will be rescuing sea turtle nests and eggs in the Gulf of Mexico to protect them from the BP oil spill. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is calling the plan the “Sea Turtle Late-Term Nest Collection and Hatchling Release Plan”.
Eggs, mostly of endangered loggerhead sea turtles, will be taken to Florida and [...]
The International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) is conducting injured bird rescue to help oiled birds in the Gulf. I keep hearing the name of this organization in the news and wanted to learn more about them.
IBRRC is working with the Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research, the lead oiled wildlife organization on the ground, to set up [...]
We care about bears and feature them in our children’s books One Child, One Planet, A Pirate’s Quest, and in our wildlife gallery. I want to to let you know about a group I recently discovered that is helping bears.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals is helping bears and other wildlife in the United [...]
Federal wildlife agencies proposed Wednesday increased protections for loggerhead turtles along both U.S. coasts, according to the article “U.S. wildlife agencies seek protections for loggerhead turtles” in The Baltimore Sun.
Ever since viewing the first clips from our award winning movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, featuring baby loggerhead sea turtles drifting along the ocean currents under [...]
Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above.
They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural [...]
KIDS FIRST! announced its Best of the Year Awards, and our underwater film The Riddle in a Bottle won the Best Educational Film for Ages 5 to 12.
KIDS FIRST! is the world’s largest film festival, run by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a national, nonprofit organization that evaluates, rates and endorses children’s feature films, DVDs, videos, [...]
Watch this amazing footage as Steve Leonard gets up close and personal with a giant octopus in the freezing sea waters. Would you be happy to get this close to an Extreme Animal with giant eyes and pale blue blood? Find out now as you take a dive into this beautiful aquatic environment.
The common Atlantic [...]
From the Sisbro Blog, Laura Sams writes that in their next episode of The Riddle Solvers, they find an ancient journal with a riddle about shark teeth.
She is blown away by how tiny the whale shark teeth are, and how the biggest fish in the ocean has such tiny teeth. Learn more
Biologist Matthew Godfrey says one or two takings of loggerhead sea turtles can happen every day among fishing fleets off the Southeast coast. Those numbers can add up to thousands annually for a turtle species that has traveled the oceans for 200 million years but now faces a growing array of threats.
Godfrey is among the [...]
Ahoy mateys! Arrrrrrrrr you ready to think like a pirate and win some loot? International Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19. In honor of such a fun-filled day, Sisbro Studios has created a pirate-themed contest based on our book A Pirate’s Quest and the “The Peg Leg Song”!
Do you like eating? Writing? Drawing? [...]
