Bernie the spider? Newly discovered spiders named after prominent figures
A team of undergraduate students led by their biology professor recently discovered 15 new species of “smiley-faced” spiders throughout North and South America. ...
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New species, ‘Humboldt’s flying squirrel,’ discovered
Certain populations of small, dark flying squirrels that live in cool forests along the Pacific Coast are actually a unique species that had never been classified ...
Genetics study aims to aid pronghorn conservation decisions
Where highways have been identified as barriers to seasonal movements of migratory pronghorn, a project just beginning in Wyoming hopes to highlight the genetic ...
Twice as many bird species than previously thought
While scientists have agreed for many years that there are as many as 10,000 bird species in the world, recent research shows there might be more species than once ...
Earth had extra giraffe species all along
Earth boasts four separate species of giraffe, not one, as scientists formerly believed, according to new research. To untangle the giraffe lineage, researchers ...
Plucking hairs: New feral swine genetic archive
Tucked away in the National Wildlife Research Center’s (NWRC) genetics laboratory, biologist Dr. Tim Smyser opens a box from USDA Wildlife Services field ...
July issue of JWM and new Wildlife Monograph now online
The July 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.5) contains the latest research reports on management and conservation, habitat relations, ...
Digital Tree of Life Shows Evolution of Nearly Everything
How exactly is it that a coyote is related to a mushroom, or a whale to a human? An online draft of the Tree of Life attempts to answer that, showing the various ...
Inbreeding Not to Blame for Bighorn Sheep Decline
Catherine Driscoll was hiking with her father in the Never Summer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains. They were collecting bighorn sheep’s fecal pellet samples ...
Researchers Trace Hawaiian Hoary Bat Origins
A new discovery related to Hawaii’s only living native land mammal might mean some revisions regarding how it’s protected under the Endangered Species Act. In a ...