quote [ When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a moving vehicle along Route Nationale 11, a road that Rayaleh knows well. This was shocking. Lions are officially extinct here: There [?] ]

quote [ In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that?s killing endangered fish. ]

quote [ Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior in more than 200 species ]

quote [ Segregation in St. Louis, Missouri, is shaping the genetics of the city?s eastern gray squirrels. ]

quote [ Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies. ]

quote [ An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics. ]

quote [ Scientists find that elephants who raid farms might be looking for medicinal plants, sparking a cross-species exchange of pharmaceutical knowledge. ]

quote [ For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under threat ]

quote [ The 550-pound black bear has taken up residence in the crawlspace underneath Ken Johnson's home in California for a month. ]

quote [ In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates. ]