One Slight Genetic Tweak Gave White Tigers Their Pale Coats
Scottish Wildcats Are Interbreeding Themselves Into Extinction
Bears That Have No Fish to Eat Eat Baby Elk Instead
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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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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
Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008
| By Sarah Zielinski
Life as We Know It
February 2008
| By Amanda Bensen, Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Laura Helmuth
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
Japan's lethal whale research draws criticism
February 2008
| By Virginia Morell
Tuning in to why humpbacks sing
February 2008
| By Virginia Morell
How did a renowned scientist who has done groundbreaking research in Brazil run afoul of authorities there?
February 2008
| By Joshua Hammer
The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo
January 09, 2008
| By Jess Blumberg
Life as We Know It
January 2008
| By Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Life as We Know It
December 2007
| By Jess Blumberg, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
A new book of photographs taken in the ocean depths reveals a world abounding in unimagined life
October 2007
| By Laura Helmuth
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
Face to face with Congo's imperiled mountain gorillas
October 2007
| By Paul Raffaele
In Poland's primeval forest, a Nazi scientist re-created an extinct breed of horse. Or did he?
November 2007
| By Diane Ackerman
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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