Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

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About 3 to 5% of mammals are known to be monogamous, meaning they select one mate for life. Still, many monogamous species ...

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Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...

High in the mountains, Kazakh herders have lived in careful balance with wolves for centuries. Now a celebrated tradition has ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Sumio Harada is best known for his striking photographs of one of Glacier National Park’s most alluring animals: oreamnos ...

Nancy Iraba was a marine scientist who couldn't swim. Now she's dedicated her life to helping other Africans learn how to ...

It's been 30 years since a deadly infectious cancer was first detected in the Tasmanian devil, threatening to send the ...

That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

A nonprofit that grew out of one woman’s basement in Des Moines rehabilitates thousands of wild birds every year. But as it ...