Welcome to the Republic of Cows
When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle? ..
When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle? ..
It may not be possible to eradicate the state’s tens of thousands of Burmese pythons. But the local wildlife is biting back—and humans wielding new tech ..
Extreme heat and other weather events are driving bears closer to humans’ campgrounds and hiking trails—and that’s no good for either species ..
The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning. ..
For a company called Colossal, bringing back the wolf-sized marsupial is one step in a larger, mammoth plan. ..
Researchers observed chimps in Gabon applying insects to wounds—and it’s raising big questions about animal altruism and self-medication. ..
Once nonexistent in the northwest part of the state, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming landscape. ..
For decades, scientists thought that being more carnivorous set our ancestors along their evolutionary path. New evidence casts doubt on this theory. ..
Fossils show how species diversity—and dental diversity—suddenly collapsed 30 million years ago, suggesting a link between climate, diet, and survival. ..
The new finding underscores the complexity of marine mammals’ social life and cognition. It may also help save the snoopy cetaceans. ..