West African giraffes make strides
Sixteen years of work by the Association to Safeguard the Giraffes of Niger (ASGN) are paying off, says Jean Patrick Suraud, the group’s scientific manager.
Mystery deaths spark anger at Kiev Zoo
More than a dozen animal deaths at a zoo in Ukraine have angered animal activists, but zoo officials claim they are not at fault.
Genetically engineered silkworms spin stronger spider threads
If you cross a spider with a silkworm, you get stronger silk that could be used for bulletproof vests, athletic clothing and bandages.
Giant fossils show penguin colours were once grey and red
Penguins only recently donned their snappy black and white coats, palaeontologists have discovered.
Dolphin DNA collected from blowholes
The dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore are exhaling on cue to provide scientists with samples of their DNA.
Serengeti highway would cause an ‘environmental disaster’
Plans to build a highway through the Serengeti could spell disaster for 1.3 million wildebeest that call it home, scientists say.
Ice melt leaves walruses out in the cold
Recent sea ice melt in the Arctic has forced thousands of walruses onto Alaskan shores, causing scientists to once again question their future.
Montague Island and the Sea Dogs
Image: Richard Vevers/Underwater Australia Australian Seals suffer something of an identity crisis. They are actually sea lions, not seals, and yet they look nothing like the fearsome jungle creature.
Renewed calls to protect koalas from habitat loss, disease
The cute and cuddly koala, one of our most well known native animals, is under threat from habitat loss and disease.
Video: Baby Baboons welcomed at US zoo
The Baboon troop at the Wildlife Conservations Society’s Prospect Park, New York, has two new members.
