October 21, 2015 Why some chimps are smarter than others Chimpanzees don't just get their smarts by aping others chimps, like humans, inherit a significant amount of their intelligence from their parents, new research reveals
October 21, 2015 Too much reality: Wildlife webcams expose viewers to disturbing, grittier side of nature Wildlife webcam operators around the world are grappling with a problem: Viewers don't want to see any harm come to critters they've grown to love.
October 21, 2015 Buffalo Zoo's new Indian rhino calf conceived from now-dead Cincinnati rhino's sperm The Cincinnati Zoo says a female Indian rhino calf born recently in New York was produced by artificial insemination using sperm from a now-dead Cincinnati rhino.
October 21, 2015 Rare harpy eagles -- 'unicorn' of the Amazon rainforest -- caught on camera A harpy eagle and her chicks were caught on camera by wildlife photographers.
October 21, 2015 Species of snake lost for nearly 80 years found on Mexican island The Clarion nightsnake was found again on one of the Revillagigedo Islands, over 400 miles off Mexico's Pacific coast.
October 21, 2015 Only 600 whooping cranes left, and 3 were just shot The endangered whooping crane population currently stands at only about 600 in all of North America—and shootings are cutting into that number.
October 21, 2015 Elephant fat camp in the works Zoo elephants frequently pack on extra pounds, so a Silicon Valley entrepreneur — to be assisted by Oakland zoo staff — is proposing an elephant fat farm. The planned reserve would help get the corpulent pachyderms in better shape, according to planning documents submitted to California’s Tehama County, where the facility will likely be located.
October 21, 2015 'Fishimal' was part fish, part limbed animal Fossils for a creature that looked part fish and part limbed animal were recently found in northern Canada, a paper in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
October 21, 2015 Real-life smoking caterpillar uses nicotine as defense Ripped from the pages of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," scientists have discovered a smoking caterpillar of sorts
