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Trail cameras set up around Germany’s capital have revealed that changing human activity patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced wildlife behavior. As a result of the lockdown, some species...

The oldest living land animal now has a new title—the oldest tortoise ever known. Nicknamed Jonathan, the Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa) is believed to have been born in...

On Groundhog Day, all eyes are on one particular groundhog. But groundhogs, it seems, are not so solitary. Researching groundhogs in Maine, Christine Maher, a behavioral ecologist at the University...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. Growing up in Guatemala, I remember getting excited reading about jaguars or leopards...

If you’re a word nerd, you’ve probably already plunged into Wordle, the word guessing game that’s taken the Internet by storm, racking up millions of daily users in just three...

After a slow start, efforts to feed Florida manatees in the wild to protect them from starvation in the winter are showing some success. About three dozen manatees (Trichechus manatus)...

After the virus that causes COVID-19 showed up among white-tailed deer in the United States, scientists have detected it among wild deer in Canada. Tests of hunter-harvested deer have shown...

An Arctic hare made a remarkable journey across northern Canada, prompting biologists to reconsider how far they can travel. Fitted with a GPS tracking collar, the hare (Lepus arcticus) traveled...

Biologists have been concerned that the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico would block the movement of wildlife between the two countries. That was the case for one Mexican...

Researchers have found that the Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 may have come through a mouse as an intermediate host. “These findings suggest that researchers should focus...