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Sometimes you just get desperate. In a last-ditch effort to help save the Sumatran rhino ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ) from extinction, the Cincinnati Zoo has gathered together the last two members of the species in North America and will now attempt to get them to mate...
The Ewe people of Togo, Africa, have a proverb: "Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it." The proverb refers to the massive trees of the genus Adansonia that can live thousands of years, reach 30 meters into the sky and achieve trunk diameters of 10 meters or more...
Primates don't get much more spectacular than the furry, short-tailed, long-faced, pink-rumped monkeys known as drills ( Mandrillus leucophaeus ). But despite their striking looks, drills—which are closely related to baboons and the even more wildly colored, blue-faced mandrills ( M...
The South African government released two important and shocking news items last week. The first announcement revealed that 461 rhinos had been poached in the country to date as of July 3—more than were killed in all of 2011...
An Australian man who calls himself "the wild detective" claims to have rediscovered a bird species that has never been photographed alive. Has the long-lost night parrot at last been found?Among Australian scientists and bird-lovers, the elusive night parrot ( Pezoporus occidentalis ) has been something of a Holy Grail...
All species of sawfish around the world could soon gain full protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, a move that comes just in time for the iconic but critically endangered creatures...
Well it's about time I had some success to report about the saiga ( Saiga tatarica ), the critically endangered antelope species native to Kazakhstan and nearby countries in central Asia...
I have a summer tradition. Every year, as close to the first day of summer as possible, I hop onto one of the many whale-watching tours that depart from Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and spend an afternoon on the ocean...
It looks like we've lost another one. The weird and unusual Chile Darwin's frog ( Rhinoderma rufum ), whose tadpoles grew inside the vocal sacs of adult males, appears to be extinct: a four-year quest failed to turn up any evidence that the species still exists...
This Philippine government this weekend cancelled plans to burn $10 million worth of seized elephant tusks after several clean-air groups cried foul.T
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