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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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Niger's giraffes and our 16th president
November 2008
| By Carey Winfrey
Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
October 2008
| By Brendan Borrell
Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more
October 2008
| By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Anika Gupta, Laura Helmuth and Jesse Rhodes
California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans
September 09, 2008
| By John Moir
This invasion would have driven even Alfred Hitchcock psycho
September 2008
| By Rebecca Sicree
September 2008 | By Amanda Bensen, Anika Gupta, T.A. Frail, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski
From zombie caterpillars to basking sharks at sea
August 2008
| By Amanda Bensen, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino Jesse Rhodes and Sarah Zielinski
The discovery of the saola alerted scientists to the strange diversity of Southeast Asia's threatened forests
August 2008
| By Richard Stone
What the platypus and other Australian species reveal about genetics
August 01, 2008
| By Dina Modianot-Fox
Life as We Know It
July 2008
| By Amanda Bensen, Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Jesse Rhodes
Great whites have tiny brains but powerful sensory organs
June 2008
| By Amanda Bensen
Great white sharks are typecast, say experts. The creatures are socially sophisticated and, yes, smart
June 2008
| By Paul Raffaele
The whiskered auklet's plumage, joshua trees, squid beaks and more
June 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Suzan Murray talks about making house calls at the nation’s zoo
May 01, 2008
| By Cate Lineberry
Long maligned as nasty scavengers, hyenas turn out to be protective parents and accomplished hunters. And new research is revealing that their social status may even be determined in the womb
May 2008
| By Steve Kemper
America's oldest primate, ocean dead zones and alligator lungs
May 2008
| By Amanda Bensen, Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Laura Helmuth
When Luna, a people-loving orca, chose Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound for his home, he set in motion a drama of leviathan proportions
November 2004
| By Michael Parfit
Life as We Know It
April 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Elephant seals descend on California beaches for breeding season
March 17, 2008
| By Andrew Curry
Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?
March 2008
| By Guy Gugliotta
Where do the elusive mountain climbers go? Researchers have finally learned some answers
March 2008
| By Becky Lomax
National Zoo scientist Adrienne Crosier discusses how scientists are using artificial
insemination to rescue the species
March 2008
| By Helen Starkweather
March 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta
Kanini and Quincy
March 2008
| By Carey Winfrey
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
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