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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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Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions
November 17, 2008
| By Abigail Tucker / University of Maryland Linnaean Games Team
No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition
November 17, 2008
| By Abigail Tucker
In desolate Niger, wild giraffes are making a comeback despite having to compete for resources with some of the world's poorest people
November 2008
| By Jennifer Margulis
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
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