Video: Biologists record opossum-eating tarantula
As University of Michigan biologists were walking a night transect through the Amazon rainforest in Peru, they came across something they had never seen before. Spotting a ...
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Facing mountains of data, biologists turn to AI
Artificial intelligence is becoming an important tool for conservation scientists as new technologies make it easier for researchers to comb through vast amounts of ...
Bird lover’s board game soars in popularity
What do spreadsheets, birds, and board games have in common? They came together in Wingspan, a board game based on serious science that has become a phenomenon ...
Heat-sensing drones spot koalas through the leaves
Some species can be notoriously difficult to spot, especially if they occupy forests with dense canopies. To detect koala populations through the cover of ...
When wiki goes wild
Patterns in the natural world can be reflected in the virtual world, researchers found. Looking at Wikipedia page view records, they found people’s online ...
British predators have rebounded
Once-endangered carnivorous mammals such as otters, polecats and pine martens have staged a remarkable comeback in Britain in recent decades, a new review shows. ...
With introduced species, charisma makes it complicated
It’s easy to get the public to accept strict management policies on zebra mussels. But wild horses? That’s another story. Researchers with the U.S. Geological ...
Video: Spot a cat? There’s an app for that
TWS member Jason Luscier focuses on urban wildlife conservation, so when he needed more data on house cats (Felis catus) roaming the streets, he turned local ...
Did climate change claim its first mammal?
The last recorded sighting of a Bramble Cay melomys was in 2009, when a fisherman reported seeing a few of the small rodents take flight across the Australian ...