wildlife

Florida panther

Keeping tabs on the elusive Florida panther

A longtime program to collar the endangered cats may be coming to an end. What happens next?

Keeping tabs on the elusive Florida panther
minke whale

In New York, a whale of a comeback story

In New York, a whale of a comeback story
Bees in a bee hive

In Germany, flying insects are disappearing at a rapid rate

In Germany, flying insects are disappearing at a rapid rate
Horned viper

Online location data on endangered species might be putting them in harm’s way

Online location data on endangered species might be putting them in harm’s way
A Rohingya man walks with a basket at Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Oct. 13, 2017.

Wild elephants kill four Rohingya refugees taking shelter in Bangladesh

Wild elephants kill four Rohingya refugees taking shelter in Bangladesh
Rainbow scarab beetle

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’

You may not envy what dung beetles and carrion beetles dine on, but you live in a world that they help keep clean.

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’
Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Elephants learn to hide by day, forage at night, to evade poachers

Normally elephants forage for food and migrate in daylight — which is when the poachers go after them.

Elephants learn to hide by day, forage at night, to evade poachers
A dolphin performs tricks at a recent Six Flags show in Mexico City.

Mexico City is banning dolphin shows, taking a lead on animal rights

A new law will soon prohibit dolphin shows, and therapy sessions and science experiments with the marine species, in Mexico's capital.

Mexico City is banning dolphin shows, taking a lead on animal rights
A herd of endangered Przewalski's horses trot across the Takhin Tal National Park, part of the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, in southwest Mongolia, on June 22.

Photos: Rare wild horses are making a stunning return to Mongolia

Decades after being driven to extinction in their homeland, Przewalski's horses are being reintroduced into Mongolia's desert and mountains.

Photos: Rare wild horses are making a stunning return to Mongolia
A close-up view of an eye of the Northern White Rhino named Sudan.

The world's most eligible bachelor likes to eat grass and chill in the mud

He's "6 ft tall and 5,000 pounds if it matters."

The world's most eligible bachelor likes to eat grass and chill in the mud
The vaquita marina is a critically endangered porpoise species that lives only in the northern part of the Gulf of California. Scientists believe the population may be down to just 30 animals.

Adios, vaquita marina? Mexico's 'little sea cow' is being pushed to the edge of extinction.

The world's smallest porpoise species has been brought to the edge of extinction by illegal fishing in Mexico. And it's not even the porpoise itself that fishermen are after.

Adios, vaquita marina? Mexico's 'little sea cow' is being pushed to the edge of extinction.
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
JFK wildlife collection

Wildlife trafficking is on the ballot in Oregon

This week, Oregon voters will decide Measure 100, which would ban the buying and selling of various illegal animal products. There is widespread support for the measure, but concern that a lack of funding means it promises more than it could deliver.

Wildlife trafficking is on the ballot in Oregon
Cows in India

Stray cattle in India get glow-in-the dark horns to prevent crashes with vehicles

Police in central India are sticking glow-in-the-dark strips on the horns of stray cattle to prevent motorists from crashing into the animals as they wander across roads at night.

Stray cattle in India get glow-in-the dark horns to prevent crashes with vehicles
An orangutan

Humans aren't the only species where righties are more common than lefties

Vertebrates from humans to fish display a preference to be right- or left-dominant, even when they don't have hands.

Humans aren't the only species where righties are more common than lefties