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Biologists have discovered a salamander-eating plant in a Canadian provincial park. Researchers monitoring carnivorous northern pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea purpurea L.) in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario found baby salamanders...

Early nesting data suggests loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) on the Georgia coast could have a record year. Researchers have counted 1,779 sea turtle nests so far, less than midway...

A group is seeking to introduce a ballot initiative that would direct Colorado wildlife officials to reintroduce the gray wolf (Canis lupus) there. “If you can put a viable population...

Researchers are crawling through many of the nooks and crannies of the largest known cave system in the world in an effort to better understand what’s happening with more than...

Biologists know that hummingbirds can adapt their vocalizations by listening to others. Can they adapt their visual displays by watching others, too? In a study in Proceedings of the Royal...

Could understanding how birds flock help us understand why they flock? A recent study explores the mechanics of the flock structure of four types of shorebirds and what benefits it...

Migratory birds making their traditional refueling stopover in Delaware Bay found scarce food quantities on their annual trip to their summer breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. Annual surveys conducted...

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,”...

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...

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...