Category: Around the Web

Why do voters in Colorado back reintroducing the gray wolf while Montana and Idaho legislators are seeking to reduce wolf populations? It’s not a surprise to researchers at Colorado State...

All over the world, there are instances of snakes feeding on spiders, researchers found in a recent meta-analysis. In a study published in the Journal of Arachnology, a team of...

A mysterious illness that blinds birds before eventually killing them has now turned up in Ohio after being initially discovered in the Washington, D.C. area. The Ohio Wildlife Center in...

Some bird species may not be able to cope with increasingly extreme winters — whether that means unusually warm periods or polar vortexes. Researchers examined the impacts of extreme cold...

When a new natural gas pipeline was being built north of Detroit in 2020, wildlife workers moved affected reptiles and amphibians and their eggs out of the way — particularly...

The serendipitous appearance of a cicada exoskeleton on a potted porch plant isn’t the typical cause for excitement for most people. But for Annette Aiello, a staff entomologist at the...

Box turtles can be hard to spot in the wild, but not for a group of specially trained spaniels. John Rucker travels across the country with his Boykin spaniels to...

As Colorado wildlife officials prepare to reintroduce wolves to the state, the canids seem to be taking on the job themselves. A pair of gray wolves (Canis lupus) that wandered...

After being released from a private zoo in 1970, common wall lizards are surging on Vancouver Island. “This is a lizard that shouldn’t be here,” Gavin Hanke, curator of vertebrate...

A new coalition of outdoor recreation companies is working to raise awareness of equity and inclusion issues in outdoor experiences. The Together Outdoors coalition, a partnership of the Outdoor Recreation...