Wildlife

Impact of Climate Change on Wildlife:

Climate change ripples through life on Earth Climate change requires new conservation models

Scientists - think more broadly to predict wildlife climate change survival

Reports identify areas where wildlife can survive in a changing climate

Declines in large wildlife lead to increases in disease risk

Space-eye view could help stop global wildlife decline

Koalas in danger as Aussie temperatures soar

Polar bear diet changes as sea ice melts

Ice loss benefits Adelie penguins, for now

Antarctic emporer penguins may be adapting to warmer temperatures

Guns, tractors 'threaten wildlife more than climate change' Half Earth: or planet's fight for life

The truth about climate change Part 1 Part 2 Extreme climate change linked to early animal evolution

Hormone disrupting chemicals and climate change increase the risk of population-level impacts in wildlife

Mammals:

Disaster map predicts bleak future for mammals Life of mammals

Researchers Explore Evolution of World’s Mammals Over the Past 100 Million Years

Evolution mostly driven by brawn, not brains New theory of early animal evolution

Researchers Greatly Improve Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals

New study sheds light on mammal group that puzzled Darwin

Bigger creatures live longer, travel further for a reason

Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals - twice

Great ape genetic diversity catalog frames primate evolution and future conservation

Mammals living in the Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) Subterranean Wildlife

Learning animal language from prairie dogs Chirps, whistles, clicks: do animals have a true 'language'?

Whiskers help animals determine the direction of the wind

North American mammal evolution tracks with climate change

Dogs likely originated in Europe more than 18,000 years ago Return of the beavers

The silent decline of the platypus, Australia's beloved oddity

Wildlife Migrations:

Great animal migrations

Animal migration tracking

BBC news about migration

How animal migration works

Conservation through coding

North America migration maps

Serengeti wildebeast migration

Saving the great animal migrations

The epic journeys of migratory birds

9 most spectacular wildlife migrations

10 great animal migrations to witness

Corridor conservation in the US West

Big bird data project probes migrations

Spectacular migrations in the Western US

4.7 billion birds leave US to winter in the tropics each fall

Monarch butterflies migration at lowest numbers on record

Geology and chemistry drive animal migration in the Serengeti

New gadgets help reveal the collective behavior of wild animals

Habitat fragmentation prevents migration during climate change

On the origin of species differentiation: a review and a model of speciation in migratory animals

Wildlife Survival, Reserves & Conservation Efforts:

Cheap and nasty: The potential perils of using management costs to identify global conservation priorities

A bold plan to save Africa's shrinking giraffe herds

Why we are losing the battle to save wildlife

Mapping the world for nature conservation

Preserving Nature on land and sea

Mapping out how to save species

Hell's gate National Park, Kenya

Western black rhino declared extinct

What I learned docmenting the last northern white rhino's death

Rapid population decline among vertebrates began with industrialization

'Lost World' discovered in remote Australia

'Triple whammy': drought, fires and floods push Australian rivers into crisis

If you cut down a tree in the forest, can wildlife hear it?

Survival of many of the world's nonhuman primates is in doubt

For these monkeys, it's a fight for survival - Indonesia macaques

Many more species at risk from Southeast Asia tree plantations

The creation of an island: the extinction of animals on Zanzibar

Wildlife face 'Armageddon' as forests shrink Endangered safari

Increasing fragmentation of landscape threatens European wildlife

Wildlife disease on the increase: a serious threat to Europe's biodiversity

Why are some wild animals more tolerant to human interaction than others?

Positive vs negative effects of livestock grazing on wildlife. What do we really know?

African elephants can now only rarely be caught in the wild and sent to faraway zoos

Wildlife in danger across US - state by state

Project Noah US~Canadian wildlife strategy

US national strategy for combating wildlife trafficking

States acrosss US are taking bold steps toward protecting animals

To avoid conflict, Los Angeles mountain lions choose separate hunting grounds

Santa Cruz (USA) cameras capture a wide variety of species

Meet the mountain lions of Los Angeles Maps for tiger reserves in Nepal

Crocodile attack project will help save lives in vulnerable communities

Remote Hawaiian Island wiped off the map

Invasive species:

Citizens and scientists battle invasive species

Marine Life:

Swimming with super grouper

Wildlife loss in the global ocean

What triggers salmon migrations?

Nudi by nature nudibranch diversity

Sizing up sharks, the lords of the sea

Short-fin Mako sharks are under stress

Hungry sharks on a French Polynesian atol

The strange influence the Sun has on whales

Whale songs tell a new story about humpback migrations

Lost chain of underwater volcanoes is a massive whale 'superhighway'

Shocking migratory changes bring electric rays to Canada's Pacific

Greenland shark may live for 400 years, smashing longetivity record

Mako sharks get more protection from trade Sharks

112-year-old fish has broken a longetivity record

Satellite connected tags to boost marine conservation

Gold fish aren't the ho-hum fish you thought they were

Reptiles & Snakes:

Critterpedia - AI identification

World's reptiles mapped for the first time

Salamanders are more important than you realize

New snake species discovered in another snake's belly

World's largest amphibian identified as a unique species

Flying snakes - here's how they can glide through the air

Turning female: The race to save the Northern Green Sea Turtle

Amphibian 'apocalypse' caused by most destructive pathogen ever

Drone footage allows researchers to count 64,000 green sea turtles

Crocodiles and dolphins evolved similar skulls to catch to catch the same prey

Insects:

History of the Earth and insects

Incredible insects 9 Deadliest insects on Earth

Light pollution is key 'bringer of insect apocalypse'

Natural and human-made stingers follow universal design principles

Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plungs in insect numbers

The insect apocalypse, and why it matters The insect apocalypse is here

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

Exposure of insects to RF EMF from 2 to 120 GHz

'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss

New exotic tic spreading through eastern US

Scientists unlock mystery of a dragonfly's migration

The elusive calculus of insects' altruism and kin selection

From warm to swarm: why insect activity increases in Australian summer

Weird life found trapped in giant underground crystals

Bedbugs survived the impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs

The lost world of giant bugs Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds

Division of labor among social insects: all-rounders cope better tha specialists in the face of threats

Microscopic life:

Hidden world of microscopic life revealed in extraordinary pictures

Extraordinary details of tiny creatures captured with a laser-scanning microscope

Bees:

Asian giant hornets

Intimate portraits of bees

Tiny technology creates a buzz

The rush to stop the Asian Giant Hornet

Single gene separates queen from workers

World's largest bee, once presumed extinct, filmed alive in the wild

Scientists crack the mathematical mystery of stingless bees' spiral honeycombs

Ants:

Making 'mulch' ado of ant hills

Ancient ants leaving a modern trail

To communicate, some ants swap spit

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have

Butterflies:

The science & splendor of Australian butterflies

At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree

A small dragonfly is found to be the world's longest-distance flyer

X-ray snapshot of butterfly wings reveals underlying physics of color

Spiders:

Spiders can float in the air, and scientists just figured out how they lift off

Scientists discover key mechanisms behind the formation of spider silk

Shimmery blue tarantula discovered in Sri Lanka

This never before seen spider looks like a leaf

A field guide to spiders of Australia

Critterpedia - AI identification

Beetles:

Fossil mix-up could rewrite the history of beetles

The rove beetle's ability to mimic army ants independently evolved many times

Heat waves are damaging beetle sperm, and that could be bad for the entire planet

Earthworms:

'Earthworm Dilemma' has climate scientists racing to keep up

Rodents:

Porcupines

Bats:

How bats took over the night

Bats and whales behave in surprisingly similar ways

Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Bat populations recovering, according to largest ever European study

One-third of Australia's flying fox bat population wiped out in just 2 days

Squirrels:

A squirrel that glides like a magic carpet in the Himalayas

Birds:

Avian subspecies

Cornell Lab bird cams

Parrots in the land of Oz

Laysan albatross videocam

The Mongolia cuckoo project

Subspecies are for convenience

Bird species and climate change

Tree of life of birds almost complete

Predictors of juvenile survival in birds

Birds are vanishing from North America

Tracing the evolution of bird reproduction

The secrets of owls' near noiseless wings

Subspecies origination and extinction in birds

Songbirds are being snatchd from Miami's forests

Huge decline in songbirds linked to neonicotinoids

Winners of the 2019 Audubon Photography Award

An eagle's gliding ability relies on its wrists movements

Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutants in seabirds

Trouble on Midway Atoll - sanctuary for Albatross breeding

Three billion birds have been lost in North America since 1970

Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID'd eye protein

Cladistics and the origin of birds: a review and two new analyses

Sampling strategies and biodiversity of influenza A subtypes in wild birds

New data on bird population trends and the climate conditions they occupy

Disproportionate declines in ground foraging insectivorous birds afer mistletoe remova

Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of birds flying in a V-formation

How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest

Watch 118 bird species migrate across a map of the Western Hemisphere

Satellite tracking of migratory birds Shorter telomeres reveal stress in migratory birds

Dylan Winter and the starling murmurations Older cranes help keep younger birds on the right track

The double-edged sword of wildlife-friendly yards Alaska's shorebirds exposed to mercury

Storms 'slaughter' kills over 21,000 birds on the French coast

Effects of noise pollution on birds: a brief review of our knowledge

Combined unmanned aerial systems & GPS data for ecological research and conservation of small birds

Wildlife encounters:

Predator and prey video Predators affect the carbon cycle

Evolutionary history and species interactions

In dangerous tradeoff, birds ally with alligators

Hunting a problem crocadile to help save the species

Queensland: why croc sightings have doubled in the past year

Jaguar versus croc video

Life inside a wolf pack

Killer whale versus great white shark video

Longest ever phython snake dies after capture

Hippo and hyena touch noses in rare encounter

The King Cobra eats other snakes

Unusual wildlife phenomena:

The amazing inner lives of animals

Fascinating ways animals prepare for fal

Pigs recorded using tools for the firdt timel

Shining light on the origins of bioluminescence

Patterns in nature: how the zebra got its stripes

Wild elephants sleep just 2 hours a day, puzzling scientists

Goats can perceive each other's emotions from their voices

Manta rays form close friendships, shattering misconceptions

Squid communicate with a secret, skin-powered alphabet

The deeper this purple octopus lives, the bumpier its skin

Why do octopuses remind us so much of ourselves?

Palentology:

Tracking Australia's dinosaur past

Home of the iCREST education initiative

International Centre for Earth Simulation

Saving lives with Science & Systems Thinking

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