This year poachers have killed 10 percent of the elephants in Africa's largest national park—driven largely by Chinese demand for ivory—park officials say.
Millions of dollars have funded research to eradicate the destructive coffee berry borer, and for years, coffee farmers the world over have been battling the pest with insecticides. But a simple solution may already exist in their own backyards: birds.
U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed marine national monuments around several U.S.-held islands in the Pacific Ocean. It could become the world's largest protected area.
Millions of dollars have funded research to eradicate the destructive coffee berry borer, and for years, coffee farmers the world over have been battling the pest with insecticides. But a simple solution may already exist in their own backyards: birds.
The animals appear to graze and rest in a north-south direction that aligns with magnetic north, not geographic north, according to an analysis of Google Earth images.
The Pacific goliath grouper, which can grow more than six feet long, is a separate species from its relative the Atlantic grouper, a new genetic study found.
Photos of giant whale sharks snapped by vacationing scuba divers and snorkelers are helping scientists track the elusive marine creatures across the oceans thanks to a star-mapping method used by NASA.
Despite its species' fearsome reputation, the colossal squid was likely sluggish and would have been filled with thousands of glowing babies, said a scientist who dissected her.
