Category: Around the Web

Following on the success of Black Birders Week, September’s Black Mammalogists Week will highlight the contributions by past and present Black mammalogists and provide opportunities for Black scientists who work...

Coronaviruses in the same lineage as the one responsible for the current pandemic have been circulating in bats for decades, researchers found. This provides more evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus...

After appearing in Florida and Georgia, the invasive black and white tegu has been confirmed for the first time in South Carolina. The state Department of Natural Resources says a...

A new board game called Endangered shows players how hard conserving endangered species can be. In the game, which can include one to five players, individuals can take the role...

Usually the web cams at the Ventana Wildlife Society’s condor sanctuary near Big Sur, California, capture the activities of endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californianus). But when the Dolan Fire, one...

A pair of surveys show the psychological toll that the novel coronavirus outbreak is having on graduate students. A study in the United States found signs of depression have doubled...

Conservationists in the Czech Republic are turning to wildlife long since vanished from the landscape to restore a former military base. Wild horses, European bison and tauros are roaming the...

A new report highlights the work done to improve big game winter range and migration corridors throughout the American West under an Interior Department program. Under Secretarial Order 3362, the...

By reviewing past extinction patterns, researchers suggest that herbivores may be at the highest risk of extinction. The team studied more than 44,000 living and extinct species, specifically looking at...

Honeybees get most of the attention, but wild bees also play an important role in pollinating some crops. A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B...