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For a pack of wolves, fresh roadkill can be mouth-watering. Scientists are using this appetite for carrion to their advantage to keep the predators away from ranchers’ cattle—especially during the season when wolves are the hungriest.

Mexican wolves nearly went extinct in the 1900s, but wildlife biologists began to reintroduce them to Arizona and New Mexico in the late...


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In an arid national park in Chile, climate change is switching up the diets of owls. As it’s gotten hotter, these birds of prey are trying new food.

In a study published in Ecography, researchers analyzed 24 years of owl dietary data in Chile’...


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Ecotourism can bring great benefits to a struggling economy and conservation attention and investment to fragile biomes and struggling species. 

But is everything that glitters made of gold? This week, TWS’ associate editor Joshua Rapp Learn joins host Katie Perkins as they travel through South Texas to learn more about the positive and negative impacts of ecotourism o...


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Researchers have documented the latest instance of orca antics in the Gulf of California. The world’s largest dolphins work together to explode a sunfish.

In at least two separately recorded instances from 2024 and 2025, one orca (Orcinus orca) held a sunfish in its mouth, while the other made a beeline for the fish. The sunfish (Masturus lanceolatus)...


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Bad water quality ruins the lives of young hellbenders—their fathers’ parenting suffers when streams become warmer and siltier.

“Altered water quality influenced how much they care,” said Matthew Kaunert, director of the Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

This new discovery reveals some of the reasons that hellbender populations in Pennsy...


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