Install
- 620articles · 30d
- 9+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
- 97%with images
- 339avg words
- Science & Nature 470
- Science & Technology 430
- STEM 203
- Pets & Animals 132
- Environment 84
- People & Society 76
- Medical 56
- Health & Wellness 52
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
An American tech millionaire signed a 20-year deal to restore a Mozambican national park where civil war had wiped out about 95 percent of the large animals — two decades and tens of millions of dollars later, aerial counts have passed 100,000 large mammals
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (283+ words) What was written off as a wasteland has become a test case for whether enough money and vision can restore an ecosystem to its former abundance. Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit The first survey planes to fly over Gorongosa National…...
From 1995 to 1997, 41 wolves from Alberta, British Columbia and north-west Montana entered Yellowstone; by January 2026 the park held at least 84 in eight packs, down from 108 at end-2024
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (412+ words) Forty-one wolves rode into Yellowstone National Park in crates over three winters. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit What makes the arithmetic legible at all is the starting point. Before 1995, Yellowstone had no wolf…...
In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...
From 1999 to 2006 crews moved 44 golden eagles off the Channel Islands and cleared more than 5,000 feral pigs from Santa Cruz; that island's fox count rose from 55 to 3,086 by 2024
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (323+ words) What looked like a conservation dead end became the fastest mammal recovery ever recorded—all by removing the predators and competitors that nearly erased an island fox from existence. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we…...
In 1995 Yellowstone held no wolves; 41 were released over three years, numbers peaked near 174 in 16 packs, and the January 2026 count stood at 84 or more across eight packs
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (289+ words) Forty-one wild wolves went into Yellowstone National Park in three winters, and in the winter before the first crate opened the park held none. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Zero, then 41, then 174, then…...
In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials packed 76 beavers into boxes and parachuted them into remote country — 75 survived the drops, after an older test beaver named Geronimo had repeatedly ridden the same system back to the ground to prove the boxes worked.
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (934+ words) Idaho’s 1948 parachute relocation moved 76 beavers with one fatality. The original account explains the tested boxes, Geronimo’s role and the limits of the survival figure. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit In 1948, Idaho wildlife officials…...
Four hippos brought to Colombia in 1981 have multiplied into nearly 200 animals roaming the Magdalena River basin — the world’s largest invasive animal, spreading through warm rivers with abundant food and few natural checks
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (252+ words) Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit A sign beside a cattle pond in central Colombia warns visitors that the water belongs to the most dangerous animal on earth and that they should stay out of it. The sign is accurate. It…...
Brainless sea-sponge larvae use sunset cues to prep their cells, then attach to a surface in about 30 minutes once night falls, in a lineage roughly 700 million years old
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (159+ words) Ancient sea sponges have no brain, yet somehow know to chemically rewire their cells at dusk, positioning themselves for the crucial moment of settling into stone. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit That timing…...
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
1+ week, 4+ day ago (557+ words) Engineers in the Netherlands took fine mud choking a lifeless lake and used it to build five low islands and within a few years, rare birds started showing up. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit We are not ornithologists or ecologists,…...
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed from Angel Island, not nearby San Francisco as biologists expected
1+ week, 5+ day ago (713+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit Alcatraz was built on the assumption that its water would do the guarding. Cold, fast and mean enough that, per Associated Press reporting on the island’s history, 36 men attempted 14 escapes…...