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A highly contagious face cancer was expected to devastate Tasmanian devil populations, but a new analysis paints a brighter picture. Researchers have found that the deadly disease has become less...

The Missouri Conservation Commission has approved a framework for the state’s first-ever black bear hunt. The framework limits bear hunting to Missouri residents and would allow it only in the...

Ecological cold spots for species today may become the hot spots for wildlife of tomorrow, according to new research. While conservationists often focus on protecting areas rife with diversity, such...

Snow leopard at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection...

Exhibiting anger while hungry is a common phenomenon — humans have even come up with the term “hangry” to describe it. In monarch (Danaus plexippus) caterpillars, when they can’t get...

It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, the two translocated...

More than 100 wildlife species in a major Canadian estuary could be gone within decades, according to a recent study. The University of British Columbia study warns that species in...

When untold numbers of warblers, swallows and other birds turned up dead in New Mexico last August, biologists were at a loss to understand why. After an examination of hundreds...

Dime-sized wasps may be able to knock airplanes out of the air due to their proclivity for building nests in plane parts critical for navigation. Keyhole wasps (Pachodynerus nasidens) are...

Vancouver Island marmots are Canada’s most endangered mammal, but they’re populations have been rebounding. From a low of 30 wild marmots (Marmota vancouverensis) occupying just a few locations in 2003,...