quote [ For the first time, researchers uncover how eating plastic trash may impact seabirds at the population level. ]

quote [ Muddy, sweat-soaked and occasionally bloody, the dedicated staff at a Mississippi wildlife center are drill sergeants. And their soldiers? Baby raccoons. ]

quote [ Poultry and paranoia in the Great White North ]

quote [ In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees?and ecosystems are paying the price. ]

quote [ A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists. ]

quote [ Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño?s intensifying coincides with global warming. ]

quote [ The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest?s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous ]

quote [ The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period. ]

quote [ In the 1990s, red kites were reintroduced to England from Spain. Now, the English are returning the favor. ]

quote [ The hold-and-ram strategy allows juvenile orcas to feed on smaller chunks of tissue and may also serve as a form of social learning and play in these highly intelligent marine mammals. ]