Peeping in on the Process of Turning Caterpillar to Butterfly
There Are Just Three Males of This Endangered Fish Left, And the London Zoo Is on a Global Hunt to Find a Lady
There Should Be an Endangered Species List for Ecosystems, Too
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Miniature African Forest Elephants Could Be Extinct in 10 Years
Ivory poachers slashed the population of the small elephants by 62 percent in the past decade--future losses at those rates will doom the species
Jane Goodall Reveals Her Lifelong Fascination With…Plants?
After studying chimpanzees for decades, the celebrated scientist turns her penetrating gaze on another life-form
Brian Skerry Has the World’s Best Job: Ocean Photographer
The freelancer’s new exhibit at the Natural History Museum captures the beauty, and fragility, of sea life
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Dog faces, the history of laughter, snakes, and bird warning calls
August 2009
| By Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Ashley Luthern and Abigail Tucker
Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it’s what inside that matters
August 2009
| By Richard Conniff
An unsung Alabama waterway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the nation, home to rare flora and fauna
August 2009
| By Michelle Nijhuis
Chemist and businessman Eric Stroud develops shark repellents to protect sharks from being ensnared in commercial fisheries
July 17, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
A new photo exhibit featuring the work of biologist Mark Moffett reminds us that we still live in an age of discovery
July 2009
| By Amanda Bensen
Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum
July 2009
| By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Laura Helmuth and Abigail Tucker
On a tiny peninsula in southern Argentina, nearly 400,000 penguins gather to breed and usher in a new generation of their species
The winter residents of Punta Tombo fly in steadily over the course of a few days, eventually swarming the small land mass
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
For over 25 years, researcher Dee Boersma has been coming with students in tow to Punta Tombo to study the penguins
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
One Magellanic penguin rejected his own species and instead of fearing the scientists, he befriended and lived with them
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
Only two months into their lives, the chicks, with their now stronger flippers, take their first dive from the water’s edge
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
By late-November, many eggs are hatching and cute, tennis-ball sized grey chicks emerge, begging for food from their parents
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
Females guard their eggs closely, so scientists must tread carefully when temporarily extracting the eggs for research
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
Handling and tagging a penguin can be no easy task, leaving oneself open to a vicious and potentially dangerous beak attack
June 04, 2009
| By Eric Wagner
International journalist Richard Conniff has reported on animals that fly, swim, crawl and leap in his 40 years of writing
May 26, 2009
| By T.A. Frail
Flight of the hummingbird, termite cloning and the rise of the octopus
June 2009
| By Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski
Crickets, spiders, ants and many other insects thrive in historic New Orleans, where kids and adults learn about creepy crawlers
May 13, 2009
| By David Zax
Voracious, venomous lionfish are the first exotic species to invade coral reefs. Now divers, fishermen—and cooks—are fighting back
May 08, 2009
| By Anika Gupta
April 22, 2009 | By Megan Gambino
As part of a multi-organizational team, Smithsonian scientist Carlos Jaramillo uncovered the fossils of a gigantic snake
April 20, 2009
| By Bruce Hathaway
Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls
May 2009
| By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Sarah Zielinski
Ballerina turned biologist Kristin Laidre gives her all to study the elusive, deep-diving, ice-loving whale known as the "unicorn of the sea"
May 2009
| By Abigail Tucker
After hiring the first animal nutritionist 30 years ago, the National Zoo prepares specific, well-balanced meals for each animal
April 08, 2009
| By Joseph Caputo
Notoriously difficult to breed, two new clouded leopards are born at the National Zoo’s research facility
March 25, 2009
| By Cristina Santiestevan
Smithsonian zoologists are attempting to breed the rare clouded leopard
May 2007
| By David Zax
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