Albatross Mom Still Active at 62. Biologist Chandler Robbins first tagged a Laysan albatross nicknamed “Wisdom” in 1956. Today, Robbins is 94 and Wisdom is at least 62. More amazingly, Wisdom has hatched another ...

Bottlenose Dolphins Name Themselves. Communication between bottlenose dolphins has been studied for years. There is recent evidence however, that dolphins “name” themselves through unique whistles and also can call ...

Wolverines Get New Protection. Despite their well-deserved reputation for ferocity, the wolverine is one more victim of habitat loss due to climate change. Last week, the federal Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that ...

Sperm Whales Adopt a Dolphin. In what experts say is an unusual case, a group of sperm whales living near the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal seem to have adopted into their fold a bottlenose dolphin. In this ...

Thoreau’s Diaries and Climate Change. The 19th-century author Henry David Thoreau was a fastidious record keeper. When he turned his attention to the first flowers of Spring in his native Massachusetts, he collected ...

Robots Make Oceans Safer for Whales. The seas can be a dangerous place for whales to share with large ocean-going ships. To avoid whale injury and death from collision with ships, robots are being deployed to locate ...

Giant Pandas Give Us Another Reason to Love Them. All but irresistible to humans, the giant panda is always a hit at zoos around the world. But whatever it is about the pandas physical nature that resonates so well with ...

Scientists look to porcupines to design a better needle and new 280-million-year-old fossil find shows some reptiles used live birth, not egg laying, as a means of reproduction.