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The Komodo Dragon is an All-Purpose Killing Machine

A visit to one of Indonesia’s most popular tourist destinations could be your last

VIDEO: See a Thought Move Through a Living Fish’s Brain

By using genetic modification and a florescent-sensitive probe, Japanese scientists captured a zebrafish's thought in real-time

African Dung Beetles Navigate At Night Using the Milky Way

A new study shows the tiny feces ball-rolling insects orient themselves by the stars

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Wildlife

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National Zoo researchers (with Ume) are experimenting with cheetah fertility.

Breeding Cheetahs

March 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta

Game Cats

Kanini and Quincy
March 2008 | By Carey Winfrey

Whale shark

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings
March 2008 | By Amanda Bensen, Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Karen Larkins and Sarah Zielinski

Q and A With the Rhino Man

Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Swallowtail caterpillar with little depth of field.

Wild Things

Life as We Know It
February 2008 | By Amanda Bensen, Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Laura Helmuth

Humpback Whales

Big Love

In a mating ritual, male humpback whales leap, splash and fight. But researchers ask: just what does a female whale want?
February 2008 | By Virginia Morell

Blood in the Water

Japan's lethal whale research draws criticism
February 2008 | By Virginia Morell

Songs from the Deep

Tuning in to why humpbacks sing
February 2008 | By Virginia Morell

Van Roosmalen was let out of jail this past August. "In the best light he was naive," says a colleague.

Trials of a Primatologist

How did a renowned scientist who has done groundbreaking research in Brazil run afoul of authorities there?
February 2008 | By Joshua Hammer

Two days after the killings, villagers poured in to help rangers carry bodies back to Bukima and then on to Rumangabo for burial. Here, volunteers are taking the pregnant and badly burned Mburanumwe out of the forest.

UPDATE: State of Emergency

The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo
January 09, 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

Orcas swim in ice floes.

Wild Things

Life as We Know It
January 2008 | By Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski

saber-toothed cat

Wild Things

Life as We Know It
December 2007 | By Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski

To capture its prey, the Tiburonia granrojo does not use stinging tentacles, as do the majority of jellies; it deploys long fleshy arms. Little else is currently know about this creature.

Creatures of the Deep!

A new book of photographs taken in the ocean depths reveals a world abounding in unimagined life
October 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

Interview: Steven Amstrup

A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there's still time to help the beloved creature
November 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

Dodging militias, author Paul Raffaele visited two different gorilla clans.

Guerrillas in Their Midst

Face to face with Congo's imperiled mountain gorillas
October 2007 | By Paul Raffaele

The animals that roam Poland

Galloping Ghosts

In Poland's primeval forest, a Nazi scientist re-created an extinct breed of horse. Or did he?
November 2007 | By Diane Ackerman

Surveyor Jack Childs founded the Jaguar Detection project after coming across a big cat in 1996.

On the Prowl

Rare jaguar sightings have sparked a debate about how to ensure the cats' survival in the American West
November 2007 | By Jeremy Kahn

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