conservation, evolution

Farms support less phylogenetically diverse bird populations than forests, but some farms are better than others.

Conservationists are reintroducing large animals to areas they once roamed, providing ecologists with the chance to assess whether such “rewilding” efforts can restore lost ecosystems.

An organization hopes to restore natural ecological processes by reintroducing large herbivores to the continent.

Researchers collate a list of the 100 most rare and unique avian species facing extinction.

Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast

Shortly after a rat infested supply ship ran around in Lord Howe Island off the east coast of Australia in 1918, the newly introduced mammals wiped out the island's phasmids—stick insects the size of a human hand. 

Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.

A genetic analysis reveals that the polar bear split from the brown bear some 600,000 years ago.