Well, this probably ain't good: Research from University of Maryland, published yesterday in the journal Global Change Biology, shows that the predictions by scientists that some animals will deal with climate chance by getting smaller is panning out among salamanders. The research team "examined museum...
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Happy 25th Anniversary to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Those were some good times. What did biologists discover from it? That the oil industry is horrible for wildlife: Scientists had.
If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years,.
I used to think opossums were kind of nasty. It's not their fault, they are just kind of ugly. Then I was walking on the campus of the University of Texas at night. I was walking on a little pedestrian bridge over a creek and...
The situation for rhinos in southern Africa is grim indeed.
A rundown of animals officially declared extinct in 2013 and how they reached their end.
In comments yesterday, duck-billed placelot pointed me to a truly terrifying story. Basically all the starfish in the northern Pacific are disintegrating. It’s normal for a tiny portion of starfish populations to suffer from so-called “wasting syndrome.” If the creatures’ skin is wounded or becomes...
The West has reinvigorated its war on wolves and the Obama Administration has sadly capitulated to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, in what is yet another example of its poor policy.
Good times in Hawaii: This "odd animal sighting" could be bad news for Hawaii's native wildlife: a five-foot long boa contrictor recently ended up as roadkill along Hawaii's Pali Highway..
Goodbye to the western black rhino.
Once again, humans are a disaster for almost every other species on the planet.
Advantage, eagle.