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Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2024
A Desmarest’s hutia in Cuba.

That Cuban rodent species you never knew about? Turns out it’s two species

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024
The clouded leopard researchers caught on a camera trap while studying other wildlife.

Clouded leopard sighting raises questions about conservation and research in Bangladesh

Khadijatul Kobra 5 Dec 2024
Tree cover in Kauai. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Trees live out their lives in surprising ways, massive new study finds

Collin Blinder 5 Dec 2024
Moose (Alces alces) populations in Ontario, Canada, have declined by 20 percent in the last two decades. Photo credit: Richard Lee on Unsplash

Why are Canadian moose declining? Interviews with Indigenous communities offer new clues

Carly Kay 4 Dec 2024
Killer whales swim in the icy Arctic waters that are newly open to them. Photo credit: Maha Ghazal

Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology

Caroline Hemphill 3 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Ranthambore tiger by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

‘Missing’ tigers in India: Tracking gaps or oversight?

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2024
Antarctic krill swim in swarms of billions. Credit: Aker BioMarine, Pew

Antarctic krill store massive amounts of carbon in the deep ocean, researchers find

Farah Aziz Annesha 29 Nov 2024

Teamwork makes the dream work for orcas hunting world’s biggest shark

Bobby Bascomb 29 Nov 2024
An Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) comes up for air. Image courtesy of André Dib.

Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

Tiago da Mota e Silva 25 Nov 2024

Deforestation around Mennonite colonies continues in Peruvian Amazon: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2024
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024

Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024
Typically found in habitats near rivers, lakes, and wetlands, the lowland tapir is a superb swimmer.

Indigenous guardians embark on a sacred pact to protect the lowland tapir in Colombia

James Hall 20 Nov 2024
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024
1_Alpine Mountan Blue (Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri)_Mustang_susceptible(NRDB1995)_©sanejprasadsuwal

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024
The adult female Chinese mountain cat found by Han Xue-song in winter near her den in the Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Easy to catch, yet little known: Meet the Chinese mountain cat

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 Nov 2024
Mario Motiño Sr. (front) and Mario Motiño Jr. (back), are trying out the new spears.

A father and son duo fight invasive lionfish on a Honduran reef

Fritz Pinnow 18 Nov 2024

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024

The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024
Northern white-cheeked crested gibbon

Gibbons found to perform dance routines akin to ‘the robot,’ but why?

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2024
Clouded leopard.

Study shows, via clouded leopards, how to better protect forests

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2024

Animals consume alcohol more often than previously known: Study

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2024
A captive Tibetan brown bear.

New brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2024

Canopy bridges serve a lifeline for Sumatra’s tree-dwelling primates

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2024
Banner image: Tourists interact with birds at the Bouddhanath shrine in Kathmandu. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

As Kathmandu’s birds get used to humans, biodiversity suffers, studies show

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Oct 2024
The genetically confirmed hybrid (right) with its capped langur mother at Satchari National Park.

Langurs in Bangladesh face extinction as hybridization between species escalates

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024
Banner image of a koala by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Researchers track koalas using innovative airborne DNA detection tool

Kristine Sabillo 24 Oct 2024
A leopard pauses in front of one of Tossens' camera traps, set in an FSC-certified logging concession in the northern Republic of Congo. Her research found that leopards live at the same density in this carefully-managed concession as a nearby national park. Image by Sarah Tossens.

Elusive wildcats may hold the key to healthier forests in Africa

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2024

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