November 11, 2015 Orangutan mother and baby escape forest fires, stoning by villagers A photo of an endangered orangutan and her baby after they survived forest fires and stoning by villagers in Indonesia has gone viral, racking up more than 18,000 shares on Facebook.
November 9, 2015 Fossils of rats as big as dogs found in Southeast Asia The rats in the New York’s subways may be scary but they would have been no match for relatives who once lived in Southeast Asia.
November 6, 2015 Improved fingerprinting tech could catch elephant poachers Law enforcement agencies have gotten pretty good at intercepting illegal shipments of ivory, using the confiscated tusks from poached African elephants to demonstrate they are cracking down on this illicit trade. But they have been less successful at finding the culprits behind the shipments – partly because it has been impossible to retrieve fingerprints from the ivory.
November 6, 2015 'Cat Heaven Island' draws tourists and more cats Photographer Fubirai has spent more than half a decade documenting the lives of the semi-wild cats that roam Fukuoka, Japan, a small island known to locals as “Cat Heaven.”
November 5, 2015 Internet finds world's grumpiest cat, named Tardar Sauce Some people are just born angry. And so too, it seems, are some cats. Tardar Sauce has become Internet-famous for its astoundingly grumpy face.
November 4, 2015 Scientists implant tiny robots inside live mice Can robots travel inside living animals? It sounds like science fiction, but scientists have just made it a reality by implanting tiny nano-robots inside living mice. Researchers from the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego, published their report on the first successful tests of implanting micro robots designed to disperse drugs within a body, reports SmithsonianMag.com.
November 4, 2015 Online ivory trade threatens Africa's elephants Conservationists say there's a new threat to the survival of Africa's endangered elephants that may be just as deadly as poachers' bullets: the black-market trade of ivory in cyberspace.
November 4, 2015 How Google Maps rescued a stray dog One dog had been living on the streets of Los Angeles for so long, she was featured on a strip of pavement in Google Street View -- until a kind stranger stepped in to help her out.
November 4, 2015 First class treatment for endangered Hawaiian petrels As part of a project that was three decades in the making, the 10 fluffy grey and white chicks the size of a small Chihuahua were flown by helicopter from their nesting area on Kauaʻi’s north shore to a new colony featuring a predator-proof fence at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge.
November 3, 2015 Smartphone-controlled ‘cockroach cyborg’ coming to TED conference For his TED presentation this week, neuroscientist Greg Gage will attach a small electronic backpack to a cockroach that will allow him to control the insect with a smartphone. Greg hopes his 'roach cyborg' will help get kids interested in neuroscience.
