How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
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Recent attacks on people off the Florida coast are a reminder of the animal's fierce nature. Yet scientists say the predator is itself in grave danger
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A new photo library of West Africa's desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas
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Fireflies' come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who've found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
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The tropics are home to the world's most venomous creatures-jellyfish with 4 brains, 24 eyes and stingers that can kill you in a minute flat
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On the remote Alaskan archipelago, scientists and Aleuts are trying to find the causes of a worrisome decline in fur seals
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Cristián Samper's lifelong love of flora and fauna inspires creative new displays of the world's largest collection
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When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
From mosquitoes to mementos, the smallest items in the Smithsonian's collections can be the most useful
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A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce "the most serious threat to African wildlife"
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The foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a hero of the ecology movement
In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
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Northwest of Seattle, an overly friendly orca polarizes a community
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When Luna, a people-loving orca, chose Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound for his home, he set in motion a drama of leviathan proportions
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A disastrous chain of events nearly wiped out California's diminutive island fox. Scientists hope it's not too late to undo the damage
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The California condor learns from people, other condors and the school of hard knocks
Sure, the new Kids' Farm at the National Zoo will be educational, but a giant rubber pizza and a "caring corral" will make it also a place for fun
British horsewoman Francesca Kelly brings India's fiery Marwari to the United States in hopes of reviving the breed
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Scores of teams battle for fame and glory in the no-holds-barred World Series of Birding
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