Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2018
National Zoo closes panda habitat for possible pregnancy
Paws are crossed at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, where a panda baby watch is underway.
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Archaeology
Jun 25, 2018
Cockatoo discovery reveals flourishing medieval trade routes around Australia's north
Images of an Australasian cockatoo have been discovered in a manuscript dating from 13th century Sicily, now held in the Vatican library.
Archaeology
Jun 18, 2018
22,000-year-old panda from cave in Southern China belongs to distinct, long-lost lineage
Researchers who've analyzed ancient mitochondrial (mt)DNA isolated from a 22,000-year-old panda found in Cizhutuo Cave in the Guangxi Province of China—a place where no pandas live today—have revealed a new lineage of giant ...
Economics & Business
Jun 6, 2018
Disaster recovery requires rebuilding livelihoods
The short-term losses people suffer when natural disasters strike can turn into long-term poverty if reconstruction policies don't consider how people are going to make a living.
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2018
Baby panda born in Malaysia zoo makes public debut
A baby panda born in a Malaysian zoo five months ago made her public debut Saturday.
Ecology
May 22, 2018
Conservationists fight to save animals as mass extinction looms
Animal and plant species are vanishing at an accelerating pace around the world—sometimes even before we know that they exist—but conservationists are pushing back against the juggernaut of mass extinction.
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2018
Bamboo-eating Bale monkeys could still be saved from extinction
There are fewer than 10,000 surviving Bale monkeys in Ethiopia, and they prefer to eat only bamboo – but the bamboo forests are shrinking, and local farmers harass or kill monkeys when they try to eat cultivated foods. This ...
Ecology
May 11, 2018
'Kung Fu' red pandas settle into new Laos sanctuary
Munching on bamboo and lazing under a fan spraying cooling mist, "Jackie Chan" is in a relaxed mood, one of three red pandas once destined for the exotic wildlife trade but now instead settling into a new home in a leafy ...
Ecology
May 9, 2018
In Japan-China ties, ibis outreach but no panda diplomacy
China has famously used its cuddly panda bears as a diplomatic tool, but to mark warming ties with Japan it is offering a distinctly more angular gift: two crested ibises.
Ecology
May 7, 2018
Carnivores in captivity give birth at the same time of year as those in the wild
Reproductive seasonality is a fixed characteristic of a species—University of Zurich re-searchers have now found that carnivores in captivity give birth at the same time of year as their counterparts in the wild. In some ...
