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In 1999, a South African conservationist named Lawrence Anthony was offered a herd of "rogue" elephants scheduled to be shot, and he took them onto Thula Thula, a depleted reserve in Zululand, camping beside them at night until they stopped breaking out — when he died in 2012, the herd walked twelve hours to his house and stood vigil for two days
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (280+ words) A conservationist's unlikely bond with seven condemned elephants proved so profound that the herd would travel miles to mourn him after his death. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit The phone call…...
On Christmas Day in 1900, 27 people went out to count birds instead of shooting them; the Christmas Bird Count has run every winter since, and its 126th annual count was held in 2025–26 with tens of thousands of volunteers taking part.
10+ hour, 22+ min ago (455+ words) What started as a radical alternative to a holiday killing spree became science's most valuable window into how climate change is reshaping North America's wildlife. Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit At the turn of the twentieth century, one common way…...
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed from Angel Island, not nearby San Francisco as biologists expected
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (713+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit Alcatraz was built on the assumption that its water would do the guarding. Cold, fast and mean enough that, per Associated Press reporting on the island’s history, 36 men attempted 14 escapes…...
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years — she resurfaced as a healthy adult, laid her own eggs, and now two of her offspring have been released into the same refuge
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (517+ words) A conservation mystery solved itself when a vanished turtle returned after twelve years to reveal she'd thrived in the wild, bred successfully, and launched the next generation of her kind back into the refuge. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published…...
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us — a distress signal originating in infancy that humans carried into adult social life to recruit attention, care and protection.
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (1418+ words) A new evolutionary account treats adult emotional tears as an infant-derived distress signal, while experiments show support effects that are real but strongly context-dependent. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit A line of moisture…...
Add up every sparrow, crow, eagle, penguin and owl left in the wild, and the world's farmed chickens alone still outweigh them two to three times over
5+ day, 25+ min ago (816+ words) One farmed animal now weighs more than every wild bird on Earth put together. Not more numerous, though chickens run that race close too. Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit One farmed animal now weighs more than every wild bird on…...
Crows can memorise the face of a person who wronged them, hold the grudge for as long as 17 years, and teach it to their own chicks and flockmates, so that birds who never even saw the original offence will still harass the person on sight.
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (119+ words) A grudge held by a bird can outlast a human marriage—and spread through an entire flock like generational trauma. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Related – if you love learning about our animal kingdom, check out this video we created…...
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away
1+ week, 1+ day ago (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to 3,500 Cape Cod homes while sixth-graders sat a standardized exam in the dark down the road
1+ week, 3+ day ago (188+ words) When a conservation success story literally catches fire, the utilities caught in the middle have to choose between power and wildlife. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The osprey is one of American conservation’s proudest comebacks, a fish-hunting raptor with a…...
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through
1+ week, 3+ day ago (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...