Pronghorn take off amidst the snow. Photo by: Joel Berger. Click to enlarge. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are the only surviving animal in the Antilocapridae family, and contrary to popular belief…
Kaaiyana, a female jaguar photographed recently with two cubs near the Isoso Station of the Santa Cruz-Puerto Suarez Gas Pipeline in Kaa Iya National Park in Bolivia. Photo by: Daniel…
King Penguins coming ashore at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island. Photo by Carl Safina, with travel to South Georgia facilitated by Lindblad Expeditions Carl Safina's picture of King Penguins…
Emerald eyed tree frog (Hypsiboas crepitans). Photo by Rhett A. Butler In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com's 2011 conservation award, our pictures of the day this week will focus…
Blue-and-yellow poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius). Photos by Rhett A. Butler In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com's 2011 conservation award, our pictures of the day this week will focus…
Matsés shaman with frog. Photograph taken by Christopher Herndon, MD in a remote region of the upper Peruvian Amazon. In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com's 2011 conservation award, our…
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo by Rhett Butler. In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com's 2011 conservation award, our pictures of the day this week will focus on amphibians. The red-eyed…
Pictures: tigers in the wild A tiger peers at a camera trap it triggered while hunting in the early morning in the forests of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Tigers can thrive…
Baby Francois langur at ZSL A three-week-old Francois langur monkey that was rejected by its mother is now in the care of a zookeeper at the London Zoo, says the…
The northern common cuscus (Phalamger orientalis) Misool, Raja Ampat in western New Guinea, Indonesia. Photo by: Dmitry Telnov. Cuscus are marsupials found in Indonesia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. Dwelling…
Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) in Belize. Photo by Rhett Butler. In recognition of the American holiday of Thanksgiving, this is the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata), a species of wild turkey…
Blue shark with longline hook. Photo by: Terry Goss. A photo of a shark with a rusting hook in its maw is the grand prize winner of the Ocean in…
Chinstrap penguin chicks get cozy. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher © WCS. A picture of a pair of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo…
Members of the collaring team with male, Gading. Don't worry the elephant is tranquilized. Photo courtesy of DGFC and HUTAN. Researchers have fitted three Bornean elephants with satellite collars to…
River and forest in the northern US. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. A river and forest in Gooseberry Falls State Park in the US state of Minnesota. The forest here is…
Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) in Suriname. Photo by Rhett Butler. Given that today is 11/11/11, the photo of the day is equally repetitive: a line of gray-winged trumpeters in Suriname.…
Okapi Calf Born at WCS’s Bronx Zoo. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher © WCS. A rare okapi was born at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo following 14 months of…
Female crowned lemur tackling a mango in Madagascar's Tsingy stone forest. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Like all of the world's hundred-plus lemur species, the crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) is…
Sunrise over the Mekong River. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. The Mekong River, the world's 10th largest, flows through six countries in East Asia: China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and…
An as yet unidentified white-and-black moth in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. This moth species from Panama has not yet been identified by mongabay.com. Moths makes up the bulk…
Mosquito in New Guinea. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. What's the world's scariest species? Runner-up would likely be the mosquito species that transmit malaria. Nearly a million people die from…
Giant monkey frog at ZSL. Photo by Grant Kother. Giant Monkey Frog T-shirt CAUTION: Sucking on this frog may make you insane. A Halloween enrichment exercise for a giant monkey…
Camera trap catches one of the world's last Vietnamese rhinos before its killing for the rhino horn trade. Photo courtesy of WWF. In 2009 poachers shot and killed the world's…
Red bromeliads in the cloud forests of Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. These bromeliads of the cloud forests of the Andes are epiphytes. While they grow on other plants,…
A male sub-antarctic fur seal on the beach between Louri and Tassi in Loango National Park, Gabon on September 1, 2011. Photo by Carolyn Sanguinetti. On the 1st of September,…
A dwarf mongoose surveys its new exhibit at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher © WCS. Dwarf mongoose inhabit the grasslands of southern Africa.…
Seven-week-old Asiatic lion cubs at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)'s London zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL. In the wild, the Asiatic lion subspecies (Panthera leo persica) survives only in…
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have identified 19 individual jaguars—each with a unique spot pattern—in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park. Photo courtesy of WCS. A study by the Wildlife…
A black-backed jackal on a beach in Namibia . Photo by: Nancy Butler. The black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) is the world's oldest canine according to fossils, beating out wolves and…
Salmon-bellied snake . Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The salmon-bellied snake (Mastigodryas melanolomus) is found in Central American forests, savannas, and even agricultural areas. It preys on lizards, frogs, and…
