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"If we want to ensure free-ranging devil populations that are disease free, putting them on offshore islands is the only alternative we've got," says wildlife researcher Hamish McCallum.

Tasmanian Tailspin

Can a new plan to relocate the Tasmanian devil save the species?

Lang's Butterfly, opus 410.

Into the Fold

Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great sharks, manakins and dino digs

"It's a crisis on top of a crisis," says May Berenbaum about the honeybee decline.

Interview: May Berenbaum

On the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis

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When Animals Invade: Rats in Florida, Mussels in Michigan

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Mixing It Up with Wild Cousins

Siberian Tiger

China Pushes for Tiger Meat on the Menu

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Squid light shows, monkey hugs and chickadee alarms

Clouded leopard

Clouded comeback?

Smithsonian zoologists are attempting to breed the rare clouded leopard

Among the best hunters in Africa, wild dogs have a higher kill rate than lions and can take down antelope that weigh as much as 500 pounds. They are notorious for a grisly efficiency that has made some people fear and hate them, if not shoot them on sight.

Curse of the Devil’s Dogs

Viewed as pests, Africa’s wild dogs have nearly been wiped out. But thanks to new conservation efforts, the canines appear ready to make a comeback

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Ape tools, flying dinosaurs and emperor penguins

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Seal Hunt Goes on Despite Melting Ice

Cowbirds (a male, above) "are more highly evolved than we previously thought," says Jeff Hoover.

Wiseguys with Wings

“Mafia” cowbirds muscle warblers into raising their young

Pallid sturgeons, which can reach six feet long and live 60 years, flourished for eons in murky American waters.

Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon

Can biologists breed the “Dinosaurs of the Missouri” fast enough to stave off their extinction?

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Gray seals, alligators and the world’s largest flower

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Squirrelologist

For The Birds

In the past decade or so, over 95 percent of India's vultures have died.

Soaring Hopes

The first two Asian vultures breed in captivity

"No one ever found any dead vultures," says McGrath. "There were simply less and less of them."

Fantastically Repulsive

In this interview, Susan McGrath, author of “The Vanishing,” describes getting up close and personal with vultures

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Flying mammals, Galápagos iguanas and sidewalk songbirds

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