Friday Ark #90 is available and will grow over the weekend, so go take a look at all the animal news you can use.

I and the Bird #25 has some great photos alongside the plethora of avian news.

The 194th Carnival of the Vanities is replete with the best blog content regardless of topic.  This is always an excellent and diverse carnival.

“A British vet and an animal sanctuary are in a race against time to save a family of baboons from a firing squad.  Five adult baboons and two young at a former zoo in Portugal will be put to death in eight weeks unless help arrives soon.”  The primate family lives in a zoo in Portugal that closed 12 years ago, and now the baboons are housed in deplorable conditions, the animals are not healthy, and euthenasia is the kindest thing if they can not be rehomed (although a firing squad is unnecessarily brutal, IMO).  [via Monkeys in the News]

Scientists in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered “the earliest evidence not only of life on Earth, but also of biodiversity.”

I agree with The Editors: We need more kittens in baskets.  WARNING: Cute kitty pictures enclosed.