It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Wildlife crossings are poised for a major boost under a new bipartisan transportation bill that would expand federal investment in projects designed to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions across the country.

Authorities are investigating a Florida roadside attract after dozens of sloths died there. The state has now instituted a temporary ban on sloth imports.

New study on the drivers of the distribution of Golden jackal Canis aureus in Europe, by Nathan Ranc, Miha Krofel and many #LCIE members 🦊. Core message: jackals avoid wolves, and have much higher densities. Wolves avoid humans, so humans shield jackals from wolves 1/n

Was there another game announcement we should cover more? Maybe, but it just fills us with dread thinking how much bigger that backlog will get.

Mazaza Games just announced their next project! Sounds like an interesting concept for an often maligned group of animals!

Hyperherbivory in Holocene brown bears (Ursus arctos LIN.) of the Rif mountains in northern Morocco: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wood bison were reintroduced to northeastern British Columbia more than 25 years ago. Researchers used GPS collars to learn how they were adapting to changes related to the oil and gas industry in the region.

Third fun fact about Colossal: bsky.app/profile/cult...

Second fun fact about Colossal: bsky.app/profile/cult...

Colossal says its "artificial egg" will help it bring back the moa, which had larger eggs than any living birds 🧪 But it's really just an artificial eggshell, and even clingfilm will work - sort of - as an artificial eggshell. Plus there's the yolk problem... www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

Indigenous land is outperforming government land in terms of biodiversity and forest conservation, according to new research. But this occurs despite a shortfall in funding for Indigenous land.

Researchers have reported evidence of wolves and cougars preying on feral horses in British Columbia. Their work reveals that horse meat subsidies may boost these predators’ numbers, which could be bad for mountain caribou.

1/7 Human childbirth difficulty is NOT special; it is what we should expect in mammals, and what we observe in many other species. It is the result of cliff-edge selection: having offspring that are as large as possible is dangerous, but beneficial. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

They come in all shapes and sizes. All have faced declines due to people. Some have had miraculous recoveries, while others still hang by a thread. However, all still need our help and care. The world would be a worse place without them. #EndangeredSpeciesDay

Genetic evidence reveals extensive wolf-dog hybridisation in peninsular Italy: warnings against ineffective management "Peninsular Italian wolves suffer from widespread (46.7 %), ongoing dog introgression" Not. Good. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yet MORE evidence that dingoes ARE dingoes, NOT 'wild dogs'. Time to stop the disinformation? "Our tests of over 300 free-roaming canines around Australia shows most carry overwhelmingly dingo ancestry. On average...88.3% dingo and just 11.7% domestic dog." theconversation.com/new-dna-evid...

New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive: news.mongabay.com/2026/05/new-...

Shedding light on the dark: Does artificial illumination affect mammal activity at waterholes in sub-Saharan Africa? conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I just wrapped up an international shark science and conservation conference. A ton of solutions were presented. Not one of these experts said that the way to save sharks is to ride them and post videos saying "look they're not that scary." www.southernfriedscience.com/what-ocean-r...

New evidence that the Vantara Zoo in India has been obtaining its animals from trafficking: news.mongabay.com/2026/05/braz...

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough!!!

Ready for my talk at Sharks International 2026 #SI2026 ! I’ll be discussing my interdisciplinary shark conservation and science communication research.

In “The Great Texas Freeze” of 2021, thousands of purple martins died. Researchers ran models to determine that it could take years for the population to recover.

It needs to be realized: by the time Titanis went extinct about 1.8 Ma, it was in North America for >3 million years. To put this into perspective, felids first appear in South America's fossil record in the Ensenadan (at earliest 1.95 Ma).

Sex matters: European urban birds flee approaching women sooner than approaching men: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Exciting news for Mexican gray wolves! For the first time in decades, a radio-collared wolf has dispersed from the United States into Mexico. The wolf, named "Cedar", is an adult male who recently traveled through the last unfenced stretch of southern New Mexico. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nmIkhz

"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

“The bluebuck only went extinct recently. There must be a wealth of specimens available to-“ Four. We only have four: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Juvenile predation overwhelms nutritional effects on female ungulate fat reserves in a high-predation system: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Recently, the Hutchings Museum made a very concerning video, claiming that the shaggy fur of some bovids acts as armor against predators. This is of course false, with wolves and snow leopards having no issue applying throat bites to these taxa. The thick fur is for keeping warm.

reminder! There is a book about tigers that you can buy and read! My mom says it's really good! 🌍🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-iO...

Climate as the Main Driver of Large‐Scale Genetic Patterns and Connectivity in the Expanding Golden Jackal: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Snakes often feast on small mammals and help keep prey populations balanced. New research shows that our snakes are spreading the seeds collected and stored in the cheek pouches of their mammalian prey—and their waste might make a powerful manure.

only 27 left: we may lose Asiatic cheetahs because of this war. "I doubt that the government has any money left for the conservation of the cheetah” says Jamshid Parchizadeh in @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-... 🧪🌍

A judge called Cody Roberts’ maiming and capturing of a wolf ‘cruel’ and ‘disturbing,’ but abided by the terms of a plea deal in sentencing the western Wyoming man to 18 months of probation. Roberts did not speak beyond answering procedural questions. wyofile.com/judge-senten...

Great news from #CMSCOP15: Proposals to include striped hyenas and giant otters on Appendix I and II to increase protections have been agreed to by consensus. We expect them to be adopted at the end of the COP. www.wcs.org/cms

new! Tiger tracks in Dzhugdzhurskii Reserve, ~400 miles north of tiger range & probably the northern-most record in half a century. Dispersing males can move huge distances & w/climate change warming boreal forests, deer move north + tigers follow... Source (in Russian): shorturl.at/uXPR0 🌍🧪🐅

Lures do not increase box-trapping success of an endangered felid in South Texas: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just because an area has more species doesn’t mean it’s healthier. In the case of sagebrush ecosystems in the Intermountain West, invasive species can increase species richness in birds—and it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Oh boy, looking forward to this one! youtu.be/yoJOWOnbvzU

Exciting news: A pack of endangered wolves were released into the wild in the northern Mexican state of Durango on Friday, thanks to collaboration between Mexico and the United States under the SAFE program. 🔗Read more: mexiconewsdaily.com/news/wolves-...

New record of dhole Cuon alpinus in Vietnam, yet apparent decline of the species across the country: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exploring the complexities of cooperative breeding: insights from African wild dog packs: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....