Wildlife

Wildlife on camera:

Sounds of wildlife:

The sounds around us

The voice of the natural world

Mapping & reporting:

Planet Earth II

Report Summary

Mapping biodiversity

Wildlife data profiling

WWF Living Planet Report 2016

WWF Living Planet Report 2018

WWF Living Planet Report 2020

WWF Living Planet Report 2024

David Attenborough - The Life Collection

The 12 most intriguing animal discoveries of 2021

New maps show shrinking wilderness being ignored at our peril

Impact of Climate Change on Wildlife:

Half Earth: or planet's fight for life

Polar bear diet changes as sea ice melts

Ice loss benefits Adelie penguins, for now

Climate change ripples through life on Earth

Koalas in danger as Aussie temperatures soar

The truth about climate change Part 1 Part 2

Survival by degrees: 389 bird species on the brink

Climate change requires new conservation models

Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals - twice

Space-eye view could help stop global wildlife decline

Extreme climate change linked to early animal evolution

Declines in large wildlife lead to increases in disease risk

Guns, tractors threaten wildlife more than climate change

A warming planet jolts the iconic creatures of the Galápagos

North American mammal evolution tracks with climate change

Three billion birds have been lost in North America since 1970

Antarctic emporer penguins may be adapting to warmer temperatures

Reports identify areas where wildlife can survive in a changing climate

Scientists - think more broadly to predict wildlife climate change survival

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

Impact of fences on wildlife:

How the boom in fences is harming wildlife

Frameworks for understanding the ecological effects of fences

Mammals:

Life of mammals

Return of the beavers

Subterranean Wildlife

New theory of early animal evolution

Dog vision: how do dogs see colour?

Learning animal language from prairie dogs

Evolution mostly driven by brawn, not brains

Disaster map predicts bleak future for mammals

Random search wired into animals my help them hunt

Bigger creatures live longer, travel further for a reason

Whiskers help animals determine the direction of the wind

Chirps, whistles, clicks: do animals have a true 'language'?

New study sheds light on mammal group that puzzled Darwin

Researchers greatly improve evolutionary tree of life for mammals

Mammals living in the caves and subterranean habitats (non-aquatic)

Researchers explore evolution of world’s mammals over the past 100 million years

Great ape genetic diversity catalog frames primate evolution and future conservation

Animal 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

9 most spectacular wildlife migrations

10 great animal migrations to witness

Spectacular migrations in the Western US

Fossil 'conga lines' reveal origins of animal swarms

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

Humans have altered the Earth so much that migratory. animals are facing extinction

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

Wildlife Survival, Reserves, Management & Conservation Efforts:

Project Noah

Endangered safari

US~Canadian wildlife strategy

Maps for tiger reserves in Nepal

Hell's gate National Park, Kenya

Mapping out how to save species

Preserving Nature on land and sea

Western black rhino declared extinct

The dark truth behind wildlife tourism

Corridor conservation in the US West

Meet the mountain lions of Los Angeles

Mapping the world for nature conservation

'Lost World' discovered in remote Australia

This Indian community welcomes leopards

Remote Hawaiian Island wiped off the map

Wildlife face 'Armageddon' as forests shrink

Why we are losing the battle to save wildlife

Wildlife in danger across US - state by state

How can travelers help orcas and humpbacks?

A bold plan to save Africa's shrinking giraffe herds

US national strategy for combating wildlife trafficking

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

World's tiniest pig, once thought xtinct, returning to the wild

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

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

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

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

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

Many more species at risk from Southeast Asia tree plantations

Endangered animals bounce back on rat-free Lord Howe Island

Alaska wildlife management threatens state's largest carnivores

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

Meet the güiña - a six-pound mystery cat vulnerable to extinction

Increasing fragmentation of landscape threatens European wildlife

States acrosss US are taking bold steps toward protecting animals

Crocodile attack project will help save lives in vulnerable communities

Rapid population decline among vertebrates began with industrialization

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

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

In Russia, rare snow-dwelling tigers are being poached for their body parts

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

nvestigating the implications of shifting baseline sysndrome on conservation

Camels are disappearing in India, threatening a century-old nomadic culture

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

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

State-space models reveal a continuous elephant poaching problem in most of Africa

Bison snot holds the Americal prairie together. Here'show, according to an ecosystem expert

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

Invasive species:

Citizens and scientists battle invasive species

The prince, the mayor, and the US fish that ate Japan

These large, invasive spiders could spread throughout the eastern US

The battle to control America's most 'destructive species' species: feral pigs

Marine Life:

Our planet - high seas

Our planet - coastal seas

Swimming with super grouper

Wildlife loss in the global ocean

What triggers salmon migrations?

Nudi by nature nudibranch diversity

Using maths to unlock underwater mysteries

This fierce fish grows 20 new teeth each day

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

Marble crayfish - the self-cloning crustacean taking over the world

Squid & Octopus:

Why do octopuses remind us so much of ourselves?

The deeper this purple octopus lives, the bumpier its skin

Squid communicate with a secret, skin-powered alphabet

Manta Rays:

Manta rays form close friendships, shattering misconceptions

Shocking migratory changes bring electric rays to Canada's Pacific

Dolphins:

Dolphins can recognize their friends by taste, study shows

Sharks:

Sharks

Sizing up sharks, the lords of the sea

Short-fin Mako sharks are under stress

Hungry sharks on a French Polynesian atol

Mako sharks get more protection from trade

Great white sharks may change their color to sneak up on prey

Greenland shark may live for 400 years, smashing longetivity record

Whales:

The hidden world of whale culture

Wiretapped cables and the song of whales

The strange influence the Sun has on whales

Whale songs tell a new story about humpback migrations

Why do whales beach themselves - we are partly to blame

This biologist eavesdropped on humpback whales for decades

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

Frogs:

Hiding in plain sight, 'cryptic' species may be all around us

Reptiles & Snakes:

Critterpedia - AI identification

World's reptiles mapped for the first time

American crocodiles can have 'virgin births'

Salamanders are more important than you realize

Giant new snake species identified in the Amazon

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

Florida team hauls in 18 foot, 215-pound Burmese python

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:

Incredible insects

Cicadas in America

The lost world of giant bugs

9 Deadliest insects on Earth

The insect apocalypse is here

History of the Earth and insects

The insect apocalypse, and why it matters

New exotic tic spreading through eastern US

'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss

Light pollution is key 'bringer of insect apocalypse'

Exposure of insects to RF EMF from 2 to 120 GHz

Scientists unlock mystery of a dragonfly's migration

Weird life found trapped in giant underground crystals

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature '

The elusive calculus of insects' altruism and kin selection

Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

Bedbugs survived the impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs

'Every day is survival': see the extraordinary life of every day bugs

Natural and human-made stingers follow universal design principles

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

Hundreds of new and unusual insects discovered in the Amazon's canopy

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

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

Honeybees found using tools, in a first - to repel giant hornet attacks

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

Monarch buttterflies are now an endangered species

At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree

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

Butterfly migrations:

Monarch butterflies migration at lowest numbers on record

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

Spiders:

Critterpedia - AI identification

A field guide to spiders of Australia

This never before seen spider looks like a leaf

Shimmery blue tarantula discovered in Sri Lanka

Scientists discover key mechanisms behind the formation of spider silk

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

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

Pseudomys vandycki

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 & rodents

A squirrel that glides like a magic carpet in the Himalayas

Fanged mouse-deer identified after vanishing for a generation

Birds:

Pigeons

Avian subspecies

Cornell Lab bird cams

Parrots in the land of Oz

NASA's bird wildlife gallery

Laysan albatross videocam

The Mongolia cuckoo project

Subspecies are for convenience

Audubon bird migration explorer

Bird species and climate change

Tree of life of birds almost complete

Predictors of juvenile survival in birds

Birds are vanishing from North America

Alaska's shorebirds exposed to mercury

Tracing the evolution of bird reproduction

The secrets of owls' near noiseless wings

Dylan Winter and the starling murmurations

Subspecies origination and extinction in birds

The double-edged sword of wildlife-friendly yards

Songbirds are being snatchd from Miami's forests

Winners of the 2019 Audubon photography award

Huge decline in songbirds linked to neonicotinoids

California condors reproduce without a male. A first r.

Song & mimicry of 24 bird species by a single lyrebird

An eagle's gliding ability relies on its wrists movements

Young godwit makes longest known nonstop flight ever

Older cranes help keep younger birds on the right track

Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutants in seabirds

Trouble on Midway Atoll - sanctuary for Albatross breeding

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

This unorhodox method is saving baby parrots from extinction

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

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

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

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

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

Bird migrations:

Satellite tracking of migratory birds

The epic journeys of migratory birds

Big bird data project probes migrations

Birdcast - real time migration forecasts

Shorter telomeres reveal stress in migratory birds

Bar-tailed godwit break record for non-stop flight

This honey buzzard flew over 10,000km in 42 days

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

'jet fighter' godwit breaks world record for non-stop bird flight

How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest

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

Trans-equatorial migration of short-tailed shearwaters revealed by geolocators

Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have been found dead in New Mexico

Wildlife encounters:

Life inside a wolf pack

Predator and prey video

Jaguar versus croc video

Predators affect the carbon cycle

The King Cobra eats other snakes

Killer whale versus great white shark video

Evolutionary history and species interactions

In dangerous tradeoff, birds ally with alligators

Longest ever phython snake dies after capture

Hippo and hyena touch noses in rare encounter

Hunting a problem crocadile to help save the species

Queensland: why croc sightings have doubled in the past year

Unusual wildlife phenomena:

The amazing inner lives of animals

The mystery and wonders of elephants

Fascinating ways animals prepare for fal

Pigs recorded using tools for the first time

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

Paleontology:

Tracking Australia's dinosaur past

Dogs likely originated in Europe more than 18,000 years ago

Reimagining dinosaurs: prehistoric icons get a modern reboot

A perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear has been found in Russia

Home of the iCREST education initiative

International Centre for Earth Simulation

The Symbiosis of Science, Society and Nature

Wildlife