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As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018
Radiated Tortoise Hatchling (Astrochelys radiata). Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have all but disappeared from their island home due to habitat loss, hunting for their meat, and collection for the pet trade. The females lay from three to 12 eggs that resemble ping pong balls. The hatchlings have beautiful, roundish shells, and at 1½ inches, are miniature versions of their 35 pound parents. Photo &copy Julie Larsen Maher / WCS.

Baby photos of 10 of the world’s rarest turtles from the zoo trying to save them

Avishai Shuter, Don Boyer, Julie Larsen Maher 26 Jan 2018

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018
A green iguana. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Florida’s iguanas falling from trees in cold snap

Genevieve Belmaker 5 Jan 2018

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2017

Mike Gaworecki 28 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

The toughest snake on Earth lives in central Africa and eats baby rodents

Alex Fox 19 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

Top 10 most widely traded animals in the Golden Triangle identified in new report

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2017

Brilliantly colored ‘lost’ salamander rediscovered after 42 years

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2017

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2017

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2017

Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo dragon

Sean Mowbray 11 Oct 2017

Myanmar caves yield up 19 new gecko species

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2017

Biodiversity of Indian Sunderbans recorded in one compendium for first time

Bhavya Khullar 6 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

Four new toads discovered in Sumatra

Fransisca N. Tirtaningtyas 21 Sep 2017

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

Rehabilitating wildlife in the aftermath of Harvey

Mike Gaworecki 14 Sep 2017

Good quality monitoring surveys key to wildlife conservation: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2017

9 rare Siamese crocodiles hatch in Cambodia

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2017

Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have personalities, too

Jacqueline Hernandez 9 Aug 2017

Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

John Cannon 4 Aug 2017

Three new frog species found in Peruvian Andes with more to come

Mike Gaworecki 4 Aug 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

How a mass extinction event gave us the majority of frogs alive today

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2017

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