Photos show scientists breeding rare and endangered animals in China’s longest river
WUHAN, China (AP) — A dozen sleek grey Yangtze finless porpoises glide inside a vast pool at the…
Week in wildlife: a slow loris, a tiny deer and a glamorous dumpling squid | Environment
This photo of a southern dumpling squid, nicknamed Priscilla, was a winner in the Australian geographic nature photographer…
Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves
“With what? I can’t talk to people?” co-star Adam Driver shouts back. Gray wolves were hunted nearly to…
Drones blasting AC/DC, Scarlett Johannson help biologists protect cattle from wolves
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.…
Biologists use drones blasting music and voices to keep wolves away from livestock
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.…
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex
Fijarczyk, A. & Babik, W. Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects. Mol. Ecol. 24, 3529–3545 (2015).…
AP photos show an injured elephant frequenting an Indian village as its habitat shrinks
GUWAHATI, India (AP) — For months an injured male elephant has been frequenting a village on the outskirts…
Bull moose on Adirondack trail euthanized because of deteriorating health
A bull moose whose lingering presence around an Adirondack mountain hiking trail this summer forced its closure was…
Black rhino numbers have increased but there’s bad news for others
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there…
Scientists identify the killer of 5 billion starfish
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5…
South Africa injects rhino horns with radioactive material to curb poaching
MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns…
Seals sing ‘otherworldly’ songs structured like nursery rhymes | News
When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in…