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It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation’s most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

When cute turns deadly – the story of a wildlife biologist who was bit by a venomous slow loris, and lived to tell the tale

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

New species named after the struggle for same-sex marriage

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2014

Did the world’s only venomous primate evolve to mimic the cobra?

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2014

Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find ‘extinct’ cat-sized mammal

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Drivers in Brazil will intentionally run-down small animals, but only if it is safe

Andrew Mann 24 Sep 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

Camera traps capture ‘fantastically bizarre’ animal behavior in South African park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Sep 2014

Bizarre lizard newest victim of reptile pet trade

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2014

Meet the newest enemy to India’s wildlife

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Sep 2014

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2014

Forgotten species: the exotic squirrel with a super tail

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2014

The world’s best mother: meet the octopus that guards its eggs for over four years

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2014

Over a million pangolins slaughtered in the last decade

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2014

Monkeys use field scientists as human shields against predators

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2014

Attack of the killer vines: lianas taking over forests in Panama

Jose Hong 14 Jul 2014

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Andrew Mann 7 Jul 2014

On a whim: Equatorial Guinea building new capital city in the middle of the rainforest

Fidelis Zvomuya 2 Jul 2014

Horror movie bugs: new wasp species builds nest with the bodies of dead ants

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2014

Bigfoot found? Nope, ‘sasquatch hairs’ come from cows, raccoons, and humans

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

On babies and motherhood: how giant armadillos are surprising scientists (photos)

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

Super cute, but tiny, elephant-relative discovered in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 30 Jun 2014

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Jun 2014

Scientists discover carnivorous water rat in Indonesia, good example of convergent evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Jun 2014

Chinese fishermen get the ultimate phone video: a swimming tiger

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2014

Fly and wasp biodiversity in Peru linked to strange defense strategy

Nicholas Barrett 18 Jun 2014

PhD students ‘thrilled’ to rediscover mammal missing for 124 years

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

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