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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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Can scientists stop white-nose syndrome, a new disease that is killing bats in catastrophic numbers?
August 2011
| By Michelle Nijhuis
Researchers have found a variety of complex, learned behaviors that differ from pod to pod
August 2011
| By Lisa Stiffler
The true story of a lonely orca leaps from printed page to silver screen, with a boost from new technology
August 2011
| By Michael Parfit
Garlic mustard and Asian carp can wreak havoc on their ecosystems, but do they have a future on your dinner plate?
May 25, 2011
| By Kristin Ohlson
Snails, marmots, condors and coral reef are among the many species on the continent that are close to extinction
May 19, 2011
| By Megan Gambino, Erin Wayman and Sarah Zielinski
Wildlife researchers and tourists are heading to a tiny Mexican village to learn about the mystery of the largest fish in the sea
June 2011
| By Juliet Eilperin
Leaping beetles, Pacific salmon, prehistoric mammals and other news updates in wildlife research
June 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Cheetahs and gorillas have some of the strongest maternal instincts, according to a National Zoo biologist
May 04, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
A scientist has discovered that high-pitched sounds made by the small rodents could actually be melodious songs
May 2011
| By Rob Dunn
Dinosaur "thunder thighs" and fast-flying moths
May 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Brian Switek and Sarah Zielinski
The hamster may be ubiquitous now, but it was a pioneering scientist who brought the rodent into labs and homes across the world
March 25, 2011
| By Rob Dunn
Photographs shot by camera traps set around the world are capturing wildlife behavior never before seen by humans
March 24, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
Fairy-wrens, wasps, and a nearly 3,000 year old big toe
April 2011
| By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth, Jesse Rhodes and Sarah Zielinski
Rare cranes have flourished in the world's unlikeliest sanctuary, the heavily mined demilitarized zone between North and South Korea
April 2011
| By Eric Wagner
The Smithsonian's noted bird sleuth, Carla Dove, eyes smelly globs to identify victims in Florida
April 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs
Panda-friendly forests, one bizarre bird and foxes on junk food
March 2011
| By Arcynta Ali Childs, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
A 150-mile fence in the Kalahari Desert appeared to threaten Africa's zebras, but nearly a decade later, researchers breathe a sigh of relief
March 2011
| By Robyn Keene-Young
These animals redefine life as we know it
February 2011
| By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Jesse Rhodes, Jess Righthand and Sarah Zielinski
Rare and maddeningly elusive, the "ghost cat" tries to give scientists the slip high in the mountains of Montana
February 2011
| By Abigail Tucker
Before the captive animals can go free, they have to hone their killer instinct at a conservation center in Colorado
February 2011
| By Morgan Heim
Now numbering in the millions, these shockingly destructive and invasive wild hogs wreak havoc across the southern United States
January 2011
| By John Morthland
Animals as common as goats, deer, rabbits or mice can have a devastating effect on other wildlife
December 20, 2010
| By Jess Righthand
Flamingos, T. rex Tails, Burmese monkeys and more...
January 2011
| By Amanda Bensen, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Jess Righthand and Sarah Zielinski
Originally mistaken for dinosaur fossils, whale bones uncovered in recent years have told us much about the behemoth sea creatures
December 01, 2010
| By Brian Switek
Birute Mary Galdikas has devoted her life to saving the great ape. But the orangutan faces its greatest threat yet
December 2010
| By Bill Brubaker
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