Category: Around the Web

An investigation into wildlife trafficking between Mexico and the United States not only put a smuggler behind bars. It also exposed the inner workings of the illegal cross-border wildlife trade....

Controversial efforts to use genetics to resurrect extinct species have taken a step forward with the formation of a new company that aims to restore the wooly mammoth. Harvard biologist...

Endangered kakapos have surprisingly healthy genetic diversity despite 10,000 years of inbreeding in their native New Zealand environments. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed kakapos (Strigops habroptila) as...

Vaccines have been getting a lot of attention recently as scientists work to protect people from COVID-19. The use of vaccines for animals in the wild has been rare, but...

Researchers are finding more and more species with a surprising trait—they glow under ultraviolet light. The latest to be discovered is a biofluorescent pocket gopher. J.T. Pynne, a recent Ph.D....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the first case of SARS-CoV-19 in a ferret in the United States. Wildlife workers tested the ferret...

Cameras tuned to detect near-infrared wavelengths can help wildlife managers and others hunt down invasive Burmese pythons. A new study published recently in Applied Optics shows that near-infrared spectrum cameras...

They may not be able to perform a leg lock, but male cottonmouths will still wrestle for their mates.  Wildlife manager Matthew Moore with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources...

The recent appearance of hundreds of birds killed from striking the World Trade Center in New York City has raised new concerns about the effects of artificial lights at night....

In a surprising twist, a hiker has discovered evidence of a mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) goring a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) to death in Yoho National Park in British...