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Sri Lanka elephant found with a gunshot wound. How can tuskers be protected?

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Oct 2026
Carlos Magdalena holding a Victoria colombiana leaf. Image courtesy of Mauricio Bernal

An Instafamous giant water lily is confirmed as a new species — and critically endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Oct 2026

Ethiopian highlands yield a new species of egg-eating snake

Naina Rao 9 Oct 2026
Big blue octopus (Octopus cyanea) with diver in background in waters off Hawaii. Photo credit: naturepl.com / David Fleetham / WWF

World Octopus Day: new discoveries about the world’s smartest invertebrates

David Brown 8 Oct 2026
Giraldo Alayón García

Giraldo Alayón García, Cuba’s ‘spider man,’ died on Sept. 24

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2026
Kurt Benirschke, founder of San Diego Zoo’s Frozen Zoo

Preserving wildlife DNA for the future: Interview with the Frozen Zoo’s Katie Heineman

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Sep 2026
Bolivia, September 1, 2026 – An individual of Leopardus tilcayo resides at Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region. The animal is the only known individual of the species living in protective captivity. It arrived at the sanctuary around 2017 after being turned over by a local family that had kept it in their home. Photo by Fernando Faciole/National Geographic.

How new is the first ‘new-to-science’ cat discovered in more than 100 years?

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2026
Tiger cat released with satellite collar in Mirador State Park. Courtesy of Tadeu de Oliveira.

A new cat species was just discovered. Several more may follow

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2026
A Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire.

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

John Cannon 24 Sep 2026
A Northern pygmy slow loris

A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought

Matthew Burkhart 22 Sep 2026

How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2026
A female Adenomera varcena. Image courtesy of Borburema et al., (2026).

New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2026
Researchers analyzed secondary forests in four municipalities in Pará state.

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2026

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026
National park staff, government officials and local community members conduct a tree survey in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos, located in the Annamite mountain range. Image by Oudomphone Insisiengmay.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2026

This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
A flock of snow geese.

From radar blobs to bird species, AI helps transform migration tracking

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Aug 2026
A female Eupelmus curvator. Image courtesy of Taisuke Kawano.

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan

David Brown 6 Aug 2026
Dave Johnson. Photo from the Global Owl Project

David Johnson, the owl man of Umatilla

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2026
Ravenea latisecta courtesy of Louis Aureglia.

Rare palm tree rediscovered in Madagascar after nearly 100 years

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2026
Cyananthus hookeri in flower in Chuna Valley, Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Image courtesy of Lahiri, S. et al. (2026) via Oryx (CC BY 4.0).

Rare alpine herb confirmed in India after 158 years

Naina Rao 24 Jul 2026

Gray whales are suffering catastrophic population decline in the Pacific Ocean

David Brown 16 Jul 2026
Likweli, a new-to-science species of colobus monkey described from the DRC. Image courtesy of Bernard Bonanga.

New colobus monkey, ‘Likweli’, confirmed in DRC

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2026

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
The rusty lark, a Sahelian native bird, was not seen or heard by scientists for 94 years.

How birders in Chad ‘found’ the rusty lark, a bird lost to science for nearly a century

Spoorthy Raman 14 Jul 2026
Giant Salmon Carps in Laotian market. Image by Peter Cunningham via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Recent discoveries of ‘lost’ Mekong giant salmon carp renews hope for the fish

Naina Rao 1 Jul 2026
Planigale petrophila. Image courtesy of Pat Woolley/Queensland University of Technology.

Tiny new marsupial species, not seen in two decades, confirmed from museum specimens

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2026

Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle

Sean Mowbray 29 Jun 2026

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