Category: TWS Wildlife News

Recent research on salamander gene flow in the forests of Missouri indicates that when deciding which ponds to protect on a landscape to conserve amphibian populations, biologists should pay attention...

There are some preconceived notions that free-ranging wild pigs (Sus scrofa), an invasive species in North America, are unlikely to survive in cold areas since many of them are invading...

“Got one!” A voice calls out across a field of waist-high sedge. Nets dip and splash into the tiny, yet deceptively deep pond in search of elusive prey while feet...

In one of the fastest, most well-documented instances of adaptation, lizards in the southeastern United States developed a tolerance to lower temperatures in response to a recent severe winter. “Extreme...

To test how accurately biologists can predict a species’ risk of extinction under climate change, a team of researchers traveled back in time. They took current methods used to assess...

Roads fragmenting the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise’s habitat put the slow animal in danger of being run over by whooshing vehicles. But roadside fencing installed to keep it out of...

Biologists around the world often go to the field and gather voucher specimens — organisms killed to serve as reference for future research. They’re crucial to scientists describing new species,...

The Beaver, Fillmore, Fremont River, and Richfield Ranger Districts of the Fishlake National Forest worked together to design a landscape scale project to remove encroaching pinyon and juniper trees in...

As the wide-open landscapes that greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) occupy are increasingly eyed by energy companies for oil and gas, solar and wind facilities, biologists are taking a look...

Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) travel 12,000 miles each year to their North American breeding areas, where they have experienced habitat loss and degradation for decades. The declining grassland bird may also...