Rare conservation win: Mountain gorilla population ticks up
Mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. The International Union for Conservation of Nature updated their status from "critically endangered" to "endangered," a more promising, if still...
Oldest known drawing of an animal is found in remote Indonesian cave
The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, slightly older than similar animal paintings found in famous caves in France and Spain. Until a few...
Mountain birds on ‘escalator to extinction’ as planet warms
"We think temperature is the master-switch in explaining why species live where they do on mountain slopes," said Benjamin Freeman, at the University of British...
Even the oceans get heat waves, and they're damaging sea life
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves. Off the San Diego coast, scientists earlier this month...
Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
Evidence such as walrus bones at archaeological sites in Greenland and historical documents suggest the Vikings' descendants there thrived on a lucrative trade in walrus...
Birds learn another ‘language’ by eavesdropping on neighbors
Birds have several ways of acquiring life skills. Some knowledge is innate, and some acquired from direct experience. An Australian scientist and others are exploring...