Category: TWS Wildlife News

Underwater videos can help researchers find hellbenders without damaging or permanently scaring them away the rocks where they nest.   Eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) are elusive and hard to detect, though...

Although the Sumatran tiger is critically endangered, its presence in the mountains of southern Sumatra is strong enough to shape the behavior of other predators that share the landscape with...

Researchers have discovered a new shell-eating disease, caused by a common alga, that affects mud turtles throughout their range.  There’s high prevalence of the disease, particularly in certain arid parts...

Bison have made an incredible comeback in Yellowstone National Park, from only 22 in 1901 to more than 4,000 today. But in the Lamar Valley, in the park’s northeastern corner,...

Detecting wildlife deaths at wind turbines isn’t an easy job. Researcher Shawn Smallwood had been at it for 20 years, and he felt humans missed so many carcasses, detection dogs...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it will not list the bi-state population of greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a distinct population of the species found...

Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers set out on a vast multi-country study...

To keep their nests safe, blackbirds are homing in on warbler warning signals about dangerous brood parasitic cowbirds. But the exchange is not one-sided — previous research has found that...

As the endangered whooping crane has recovered from a mere 16 birds in the 1940s to over 500 today, their flock sizes have also increased during migration, researchers found. Whooping...

If you wanted to spend the least amount of money to get the most conservation value, where would you go? What species would you target? That’s what Paul Armsworth, a...