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Animals

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Wrecked Rivers of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ Teem With Life Once More

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Chimps Celebrate the End of a Research Era

Bar-headed goose with a Mount Everest-simulating air mask.

Extreme Geese Reveal High-Altitude Secrets in Wind Tunnel

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Respect: Sharks are Older than Trees

America’s Other (Lady) Audubon

Cowboy Conservationist Frees Whales with Crossbow

The new baby takes his first sip of water.

Adorable, Critically Endangered Baby Sumatran Rhino Born

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The Last of His Kind, Tortoise Lonesome George Dies, Leaving No Offspring

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This Beautiful Window Art Also Saves Birds’ Lives

‘World’s Rarest Toad’ Not Extinct After All

Wind turbines in Pennsylvania

Scientists Save Bats and Birds from Wind Turbine Slaughter

50 Years of Longline Fishermen Throwing Out the Endangered Half of Their Catch

Beautiful Infographic Charts Ugly Reality of Species Loss

Chicken reigns in the 21st century.

How the Chicken Conquered the World

The epic begins 10,000 years ago in an Asian jungle and ends today in kitchens all over the world

Betty White’s new book details her life of loving animals and working with zoos to help endangered species around the world.

Betty White on Her Love for Animals

Everyone knows the “Golden Girls” actress for her long television career, but she is just as proud of her work with zoos

In his new book, Learning From the Octopus, Rafe Sagarin argues that we ought to look to nature for how to better protect ourselves from danger.

How Plants and Animals Can Prepare Us for the Next Big Disaster

Author Rafe Sagarin looks to the natural world for tips on how to plan for national emergencies

Greetings From the Land of the Make-Believe Species

Postcards provided proof of lake serpents, jackalopes and assorted curious monsters

The Mollusc Militia is Coming

I have glimpsed the future. And it is teeming with creepy crawly cyborgs

The land where the Clovis once hunted.

Clovis People Hunted Canada’s Camels

North American camels went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Were humans partly to blame?

The common marmoset may be a suitable model for human obesity.

How Marmosets Can Teach Us About Obesity

A new study indicates the small monkeys may help us understand what leads us to put on weight

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