2+ week, 5+ day ago   (737+ words) Researchers mapped the hidden routes traffickers use to smuggle Mexico’s native parrots, revealing an increasingly organized illegal wildlife trade. Wildlife traffickers have been smuggling Mexico’s native parrots for decades, and the birds are losing ground fast. Every single Mexican parrot…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (856+ words) Blue is one of nature’s rarest colors. When it does appear, it is usually created by microscopic structures that bend and scatter light rather than by blue pigments themselves. Now, scientists have discovered that one Australian frog, the green and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (974+ words) Federal agencies have rescinded a decades-old rule that treated the destruction of an endangered animal’s habitat as a form of harm under the Endangered Species Act. Wrecking a forest, wetland or stream that a protected species depends on will no…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (925+ words) Gray wolves have only recently returned to California after nearly a century of absence, but they are already creating an unexpected challenge for ranchers. A new study found that two wolf packs in the state’s northeast get most of their…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (750+ words) Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) have a reputation as loners, drifting through the bamboo forests of southwestern China on their own. Yet the trees they pass carry a running conversation. A recent study found that pandas keep track of one another…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (895+ words) Marine life around the world suffered widespread harm during the first year that global temperatures briefly passed 2.7°F (1.5°C) above pre-industrial levels. Much of the damage landed outside summer, the season scientists watch most closely. A new study has now…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (889+ words) A bird song is more than just a pretty sound. For it to survive, one bird must pass it on to the next. Some songs catch on and spread across a whole group of birds. Others almost die out, and…...