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By David Brown and Stuart Short Today’s article is coming to you from Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar. Our special guest today is the creature known by the common name…

By Stuart Short & David Brown You tromp through a low elevation rain forest in Madagascar and hear strange squeaks and chirps emerging from out of the plants below you.…

Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), a 200 pound, two-horned bovine, has roamed around the Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam unbeknownst to humans until its discovery in 1992 by the World Wildlife…

The bonobo (Pan pansicus) is known for being a key stone species, a species that plays an important role in maintaining ecosystem functions. Recent studies now reveal the bonobo as…

By David Brown & Stuart Short “Does anybody know what this animal is?” asks Stuart Short as he carefully holds a small mammal up for his audience to see. Stuart is…

By David Brown & Stuart Short KERSPLASH!  Deep in the rainforests of Central Africa, a biologist sees an animal that looks like an otter dart into a stream.  It has…

By David Brown & Stuart Short If you owned a tropical island with forests and rivers and deserts and you wanted to populate it with animals that would use all…

The duck-billed platypus is a really odd creature. It’s a mammal, but it lays eggs like a reptile and is also one of the world’s only venomous mammals.  It gets…

If you want to save a top predator like the Malayan Tiger, you have to make sure it has enough prey to feed on. Scientists at MYCAT (The Malaysian Conservation…

After the recent discovery of Olinguito-the world’s newest mammal, scientists released first pictures of a baby Olinguito from La Mesenia Conservation Project in Colombia. Olinguitos are found only in Ecuador…

Last March, several scientists from James Cook University and a National Geographic/Harvard University photographer surveyed the remote peninsula of Cape Melville in north eastern Australia. It was the first time…

The first ever study of a species of flying-fox has shown it is under threat from climate change. Flying foxes, which aren’t actually foxes at all but types of bats,…

Researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science have found that the amount of area used for gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has increased by 400% since 1999. This amount is…

This year, scientists working in the Amazon recorded an incredible 15 new species of birds. Birds are one of the most well-known groups of animals on Earth.  Finding new species…

A new study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that eating insects could help save the planet. The report released by the FAO argues that there is…

One of the fiercest animals in the world, the wolverine, may soon be protected in the United States. Environmentalists have been trying to convince U.S. lawmakers to list the wolverine…

The snow leopard is a rare, elusive feline that lives in the mountains of central Asia. The snow leopard is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and conservationists…

The scarlet macaw is a beautiful bird that roams the skies of Central America. The scarlet macaw is indigenous to the forests of Mexico, but hasn’t been seen in Mexico…

Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings…

During a 44-day survey, experts estimated 1,000 Yangtze finless river porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) inhabited the river and adjoining lakes, down from around 2,000 in 2006. The ecology of China's…