Month: June 2019

Can high-quality habitat be too much of a good thing? It might seem like having lots of resources for feeding and breeding would be an all-around benefit for wildlife, but...

About 100 young green sea turtles have been stranded on the Texas coast due to high tides and flooding that followed May storms. The turtles “just couldn’t beat the waves,”...

Hundreds of years ago, the Bronx River was rife with aquatic reptiles like common snapping turtles, musk turtles and painted turtles. But only a few species have managed to survive...

When Marcus Drymon was conducting his usual shark surveys in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he wasn’t surprised to catch a small tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). The surprise was...

The Wildlife Society, alongside the American Fisheries Society and the National Wildlife Federation, sent a letter to the leadership of the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and...

When it comes to managing wild horses on public lands in the West, it’s hard to find common ground. Proponents thrill at the sight of free-ranging horses, and they appeal...

The number of cows and calves killed by Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) is rising dramatically this year. Federal reports show the wolves were blamed for the deaths of...

For frogs, a stressful early life as a tadpole can lead to long-term fitness consequences in adulthood. “Even though you have this huge change in body morphology through metamorphosis, that...

Biologists say a sylvatic plague outbreak that decimated prairie dogs in Montana’s UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge has nearly eliminated the refuge’s black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) population. Biologists counted just...

Registration for The Wildlife Society & American Fisheries Society 2019 Joint Annual Conference is now open! Visit afstws2019.org for more information, or click here to register now! For those not...