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Cabe at Gunung Mulu National

Borneo’s GIGANTIC bat caves

Izzy Sasada 30 Apr 2026
Khudi Bari hause

These tiny houses are designed to stand in extreme floods

Lucia Torres 25 Apr 2026
A portrait of a cute Gentoo penguin during the snowfall in Antarctica with a blurry background

How much does a penguin weigh?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026
Kakapo Strigops habroptila "Sirocco" amongst renga renga lillies. Maud Island, New Zealand.

World’s fattest parrots have mating frenzy

Sam Lee 18 Apr 2026

The mother of orangutans

Izzy Sasada 11 Apr 2026
Proyecto-Guacamayo-de-Tambopata; macaw, green and red

Hidden cameras reveal macaws’ secret lives

Romi Castagnino 5 Apr 2026
Giant Tortoise

Return of the giant tortoises

Sam Lee 2 Apr 2026
Collage of a cloned jaguar

Lab-made jaguar: Is cloning a solution to extinction?

Julia Lima, Gustavo Fonseca, Letícia Klein 30 Mar 2026
White rhinoceros, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana

Can this giant freezer de-extinct animals?

Izzy Sasada 23 Mar 2026
Red Belly Toad

The toughest toad in town

Julia Lima 15 Mar 2026
Sloth on tree

The dark side of smiling sloths

Sam Lee 12 Mar 2026
Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers all around the world, this frozen vault aims to preserve the history of the Earth's atmosphere for future generations to study.

A sanctuary… for glacier ice?

Sam Lee 5 Mar 2026

Counting bats in the dark

Sam Lee 4 Mar 2026
Two black brown colored roosters having a cockfight.

Cockfights might knockout Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 26 Feb 2026
Collage featuring cockfighting and a largetooth sawfish

Why is cockfighting a risk to Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 25 Feb 2026
Monarch Butterfly

Flying along with monarch butterflies

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Feb 2026
Collage featuring a white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) and a poacher

The most desirable songbird in Indonesia is disappearing from the wild

Rizky Maulana Yanuar, Sandy Watt 18 Feb 2026
Urania leilus (Uraniidae)

That “butterfly” you saw? It was probably a moth

Romi Castagnino 17 Feb 2026
Stingray

Snooping on stingrays

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2026
The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

Romi Castagnino 13 Feb 2026
Collage featuring Jeffrey Lendrum

The man who risked everything to steal bird eggs

Sandy Watt 11 Feb 2026
Nayla Azmii, founder of Nuraga Bhumi, and her colleagues posing for the camera.

Sumatra’s female forest protectors

Izzy Sasada 22 Jan 2026
Izzy Sasada and orangutan

Orangutans rescued undergo re-training to return to the wild

Izzy Sasada, Sam Lee 17 Dec 2025

Returning baby gibbons to the wild

Izzy Sasada 29 Nov 2025
Collage: Elise Paietta, postdoctoral research scholar during fieldwork, with tropical forest

How do we stop the next pandemic?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Nov 2025

Are wolves scared of us?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Nov 2025

Heart checkup for anteaters

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Oct 2025
Soldiers from the PROLANSATE Foundation on patrol

Why is protecting this Honduran lagoon so dangerous? 

Fritz Pinnow, Sam Lee 22 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño harvests kale in her chinampa.

Saving Mexico City’s ancient floating farms

Lucia Torres, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025

Philippines protects coral hotspot

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Oct 2025
The critically endangered Alta Floresta Titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi) crossing one of the bridges in February 2025. Image courtesy of NZCBI.

Rare monkeys cross new sky bridges

Shanna Hanbury 5 Aug 2025

When the sea takes over: Voices from a climate-displaced community in Mexico

Sam Lee 1 Aug 2025

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The Golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis), a powerful migratory freshwater fish native to the Pantanal and Paraná River Basin, shown here being held by researcher Zeb Hogan. Highly prized by recreational anglers and important to commercial fisheries, the species has declined in parts of its range due to dam construction.
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Goose Island Archipelago is a cluster of tree-covered islands with wild, rocky beaches located off the central coast of British Columbia.
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