Most efforts to rescue threatened species from the risk of extinction involve decades of hard work. Even our country’s national symbol, the iconic bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus),... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In a small chamber deep in the Atapuerca mountains in northern Spain lies one of the most extraordinary paleontological discoveries of all time: a massive assemblage of fossils belonging to an... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Tiny spores from mosses, algae and lichens can stick in bird feathers, travel from the Arctic to the bottom of South America and grow into whole new specimens. Erika Beras reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mobile devices promise to give bird-watchers new tools for their fieldwork, but smartphone apps for identifying these aviators are not quite ready to leave the nest -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) last week announced that the world’s rarest and smallest sloth could deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act (pdf). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com