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On World Rhino Day, Borana Conservancy celebrates 2 years as a Rhino Sanctuary
Anti Rhino poaching Rangers on Borana Conservancy, Northern Kenya. The black rhinoceros has roamed the earth for five million years, yet it is now facing the greatest threat in its history – from...
View ArticleHuge Whip Spiders Wear Nail Polish for Science
“You can only describe the tropical whip spider as evolution’s perfect design for an arthropod killing machine,” says Verner Bingman, a behavioral neuroscientist and National Geographic grantee. While...
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Unsurprisingly, American Explorer Terrible at Milking Cows
Chris will be hosting a live Q&A on the National Geographic Facebook page on Thursday, 10/15 at 12:30PM ET. Join us then! When explorer and National Geographic grantee Chris Bashinelli went on...
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This Deadly-Looking Leopard Is Actually Fun to Photograph
“You know when there’s a reason to be afraid. And she will let you know if you’re getting too close,” National Geographic photographer Steve Winter says, referring to a mother leopard looking at him...
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WATCH: Billions of Bugs Feast on Flesh and Dung in Borneo
The Gomantong Caves in Borneo are the type of place that makes most people want to tuck their socks into their pants and run the other way. First imagine the amount of feces that millions of bats and...
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Phantom of the Forest: Could the Cougar Again Haunt Eastern U.S. Woodlands?
The ghost cat, better known as the cougar, may make its way to eastern woodlands. (Photograph: Denis Callet) The phantom, it’s been called, this big cat that now prowls western North and South America...
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Seal Pups: Ferociously Cute and Worth Protecting
“It is, of course, important to maintain some academic separation from your study subject as a scientist,” says wildlife biologist and National Geographic grantee, Douglas Krause, although it doesn’t...
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Pride of Africa: New Lion Conservation Alliance
Lioness resting on a sand bar, Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique (Photograph by Dr. Colleen Begg) It is a little known fact that there are more rhinos remaining in Africa than there are lions. In...
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Grévys Zebra now protected in Kenya by Samburu Warriors
Grevy’s zebra rolling in dust at dawn (Equus grevyi), Samburu National Reserve, Kenya (Photograph by James Warwick / http://www.jameswarwick.co.uk/) More closely related to an ass than a horse, the...
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Tense Standoff With a Male Elephant in Mating Mode
“About 97 percent of all the elephants were killed, and the ones that are left don’t like us very well,” says National Geographic filmmaker Bob Poole, referring to the elephants who live in Gorongosa...
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When Endangered Lemurs Need a Home, This Is What You Build
Shrinking and degraded forests in Madagascar have left sportive lemurs homeless without their tree-hole sleeping spots, so the i.F.r.o.g.s. team came up with a “constructive solution.” (Photos by...
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Shadow Cat: Canada Lynx Silently Cross U.S. State, National Borders
On-the-move: Canada lynx are making their way into new territory. (Photograph: USFWS/Keith Williams) The forest has eyes. And somewhere in the shadows of a winter dusk that falls across towns in...
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Watch: Monarch Butterflies Get Tiny Radio Trackers
While monarch butterflies may be relatively small in size, they make one of the most epic journeys known to animal-kind. During the spring, the first generation of butterflies leaves its winter home in...
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Uncharted Arctic waters: A new opportunity for exploitation, or conservation?
Co-authored by Erica Cirino When thick sheets of sea ice began melting in the Arctic waters around Svalbard, Norway, a few years ago, a new expanse of sparkling blue sea opened up. As climate change...
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Wolf – Caribou Detente? Clues Hidden on Lake Superior Islands
A woodland caribou peers through spruce trees on Lake Superior’s Slate Islands. (Photograph: Andrew Silver) Qalipu, it’s called by Canada’s Mi’kmaq people. To others, it’s the elusive gray ghost of the...
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The manta in the mirror
By John Weller and Shawn Heinrichs A meeting of minds Chain upon chain of jagged islands jutted up from the sea. Dense vegetation clung to black, pitted rock walls that dropped sharply into cerulean...
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Abandoned fishing nets: The irony of the sea that keeps on catching (and...
Co-authored by Erica Cirino It was a cool morning in early spring when a group of volunteer divers jumped off their boat into the calm, turquoise waters off Makronisos Island in Greece. Under the...
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Excuse me, waiter, there’s an invasive species in my soup
Co-authored by Erica Cirino After a full day looking at dinosaur bones, taxidermy birds and hieroglyphs at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, I walked through the streets of New Haven in the...
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Killer whales pursuing a dolphin off Central California
By Jodi Frediani, with intro by Carl Safina Killer whales are astonishing creatures, extreme by every measure. I (Carl) wrote extensively about them in my recent book Beyond Words; What Animals Think...
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The unseen significance of whales
Co-authored by Jessica Perelman Jessica is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in biological sciences. She will be attending veterinary school next year and plans...
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