When biologists study food theft among endangered roseate terns, they find that crime most definitely pays
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A dazzling exhibition space celebrates mammalian diversity through re-creations of habitats on four continents
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling
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In an unexplored region of Africa's Atlantic coast, an innovative photographer captures Gabon's bountiful wildlife
Stanford Addison uses intuition, compassion and persistence to "break" wild horses
Researchers' efforts to clone the vanished Tasmanian tiger highlight the quandary of reviving long-gone creatures
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Elephant researchers believe they can boost captive-animal reproduction rates and reverse a potential population crash in zoos
Scientists knew that alligators' jaws are covered in bumps but it took biologist Daphne Soares to figure out why
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Going the extra mile for bears and bats
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Scientists zero in on the caring and cunning ways of a seldom-seen waterbird
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Only hundreds of miles from the North Pole, industrial chemicals threaten the Arctic's greatest predator
Las Vegas showman Jonathan Kraft went from riches to rags to turn a patch of Arizona desert into a refuge for abused and abandoned exotic animals
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Angry fishermen accuse the cormorant of ruining their livelihood and have taken the law into their own hands. But is the cormorant to blame?
Scientists launch a $1 billion effort to track marine life worldwide
Science meets shamanism at a gathering to ponder the fate of the Pacific Ocean leatherback
A California biologist discovered a new insect species and then caught evolution in the act
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Without the extraordinary dedication of a few conservationists, New Zealand's kakapo would likely have gone the way of the dodo
Gentle giants? New research suggests that male sperm whales may butt heads over females
Assaulted by myriad threats to their survival, palm species around the world face the likelihood of extinction
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