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Shoebill

Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Carolyn Cowan 28 Mar 2024
Two male mallard ducks in Hesse, Germany, showing homosexual behavior.

Study on evolution of same-sex animal behaviors underscores stigmas in research

Swati Thapa 13 Dec 2023
Clouded leopard

Clouded leopards face alarming decline amid ‘genetic crisis,’ study warns

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023
A Micrelaps vaillanti

Scientists make ‘rare’ new identification of snake family: Micrelapidae

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Apr 2023
A Djouroutou chimpanzee cracks open a panda nut on a wooden anvil. Photo credit: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project

Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution

Kate Hull 13 Dec 2022
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022
A rendition of D. xiezhi head-to-head butting. Image courtesy of Xiao Cong Guo and Yu Wang.

‘Strange’ giraffoid fossil shows giraffes evolved long necks to win mates: study

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jun 2022
A frog in Peruvian Amazon.

Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future

Fernanda Wenzel 24 May 2022

E.O. Wilson’s last dream

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2022
Courtesy of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

Edward O. Wilson, prominent biologist and author, has died at 92

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2021

New study reveals globe-trotting pedigree of South Asian songbirds

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Nov 2021

In Mozambique, mystery of tuskless elephant points to poaching as the culprit

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2021
Paleoart

Low genetic diversity is part of rhinos’ long-term history, study says

Carolyn Cowan 31 Aug 2021

In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 10 Aug 2021

Endangered bats are evolving to fight off an exotic fungal disease

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 May 2020

Climate tipping point ecosystem collapses may come faster than thought: Studies

Shanna Hanbury 11 May 2020

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

Shell of bioluminescent shrimp not only glows but detects light

Edward Carver 23 Mar 2020

New species of ancient human found in a Philippine cave

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Apr 2019

Unusual lizard lays eggs, then births a live baby — in the same pregnancy

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2019

Super variable California salamander is ‘an evolutionist’s dream’

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2019

We know why zebras got their stripes, but how do they work?

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2019

Six new catfish species, facial tentacles and all, described in Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

New species of tree frog from Ecuador has a mysterious claw

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2019

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018
Monopterus rongsaw, a swamp eel from India. Photo © Rachunliu G Kamei

Hot pink swamp eel discovered in Indian rainforest

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2018

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

New species of neon-colored fish discovered off Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

New species of blood-red coral found off Panama coast

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018
RioBranco_ThiagoLaranjeiras

A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

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