A diver separated from his boat off the coast of Australia said Sunday he was lucky to be alive after being forced to swim miles back to shore—shadowed by a large tiger shark.
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Oct 22, 2017
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In the northern mountains bordering Russia, everyone knew the spry Chinese man as a skilled and ruthless hunter—the kind who once killed a mother black bear as her cubs looked on.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2017
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Wild tigers could be returning to Kazakhstan after a groundbreaking reintroduction plan was signed off Friday.
Ecology
Sep 8, 2017
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Australian tiger snakes have "hit the jackpot" because prey cannot evolve resistance to their venom.
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2017
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Bangladesh has more than doubled the size of the wildlife sanctuary in the world's largest mangrove forest to try to protect endangered Bengal tigers whose numbers have fallen sharply, officials said Tuesday.
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Aug 1, 2017
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Sharks, marine scientists say, are often misunderstood, described as ravenous man-eaters. In reality, sharks are critically important to the health of the world's oceans, yet a quarter of all shark species are threatened ...
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Jul 26, 2017
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An Australian summer rarely passes without another chilling headline about a shark attack. And while the first response to the now seemingly regular attacks is to call for a cull, killing them is not the answer.
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May 8, 2017
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The flow of genes between Bengal tigers in two reserves of the Terai Arc Landscape in western Himalayan foothills is too low, according to a study published April 26, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Surendra Prakash ...
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Apr 26, 2017
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Thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes were released in the wild Tuesday near Key West, testing a new way to kill mosquitoes that carry Zika and other viruses.
Ecology
Apr 18, 2017
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Conservationists on Tuesday hailed the discovery of a new breeding population of tigers in Thailand as a "miraculous" victory for a sub-species nearly wiped out by poaching.
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Mar 28, 2017
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