April 14, 2016 Scientists ask Obama to protect right whales from sonic threat Concerned about the fate of the imperiled North Atlantic right whale, a group of over two dozen scientists have written an open letter to President Obama asking him to stop the possible use of seismic surveys in the Atlantic between Delaware and Florida.
April 14, 2016 17-year cicadas set to invade the Northeast Next month, as temperatures warm, billions of cicadas will begin to emerge from the ground as their internal clocks hit the 17-year mark.
April 14, 2016 Orphaned bear cubs settle in at animal sanctuary in new photos Rescuers say they found four orphaned bear cubs shivering underneath the deck of a Nevada house over the weekend, with no parents and nowhere to go.
April 13, 2016 Caught on camera: A leopard kills a deer in India Dramatic photographs released by the Wildlife Conservation Society show the final moment of a Sambar deer’s life following a leopard’s devastating attack.
April 5, 2016 Weeks after its discovery in Borneo, rare Sumatran rhino dies A rare Sumatran rhino has died just weeks after its discovery in the Indonesian part of Borneo was hailed as a milestone by conservationists.
April 1, 2016 Ancient snake's colors revealed through 10-million-year-old fossil Scientists have used sophisticated scanning technology to discover what colors an ancient snake, captured in a colorless fossil, would have had on its skin.
April 1, 2016 Hope for tigers? Study finds their numbers could double by 2022 When it was first proposed at a summit in Russia, the idea of doubling the numbers of tigers by 2022 seemed wildly ambitious – given the widespread habitat loss and poaching of the big cats.
March 31, 2016 Giant rats trained to sniff out TB Which are you more afraid of: giant rats or dying of tuberculosis?
March 31, 2016 Remains of long-extinct cave lion cubs unveiled in Russia Two well–preserved cave lion cubs, complete with fur, ears, and whiskers, were unveiled Tuesday in Russia. They were discovered in a Siberian ice sheet in Yakutia this past summer, marking the first time humans have seen the extinct species in over 10,000 years.
March 30, 2016 Researchers in Nepal confirm first case of TB in a rhino Researchers at a wildlife conservation preserve in Chitwan National Park, Nepal have announced the first confirmed case of tuberculosis (TB) in a young female Asian One-horned rhino.
