New DNA evidence suggests that the golden jackal (Canis aureus) is actually comprised of two different species. According to National Geographic: The golden jackal, which lives in East Africa and Eurasia, is actually ...

A British company has developed a round-the-clock electronic monitoring system that could stop poachers from killing rhinos for their valuable horns. According to CNET News, the system, nicknamed RAPID (Real-time Anti ...

Today the United States government, in concert with a number of conservation groups, sent a powerful message to poachers by crushing more than a ton of illegally-traded elephant ivory in the middle of Times Square. “Many ...

  Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from ecologist Holly Copeland, a staff scientist with The Nature Conservancy. Copeland’s work focuses on mapping out wildlife migration corridors and other ...

NOAA scientists have discovered that a large ocean-going fish, called the opah, is fully warm-blooded. Their study, published in the journal Science, shows that the fish’s active style of swimming and a heat exchange ...

CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a story about the black snub-nosed monkey featuring interviews with Jacky Poon, cameraman for the Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La and Xi Zhinong, the first person to ever photograph the ...

The black snub-nosed monkey (also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey) is a medium-sized primate species named for its black fur and a distinctive upturned nose, which results from a lack of nasal bones. Adult females ...

Editor’s note: The following article is reproduced with permission of Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.  For more on the plight of the sage grouse ...