Innovation
How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife
Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other...
3 months ago
Innovation
Trash birds: A startup in Sweden is recruiting crows to do our dirty work
This one's for the birds.
4 years ago
Poaching
Groundbreaking facial surgery for 'Hope' the rhino (VIDEO)
Nearly a year after poachers hacked off her horn and left her for dead, six-year-old rhino "Hope" has undergone a groundbreaking procedure to close...
10 years ago
'Grecia' the injured toucan finally got his 3D-printed beak – and even his singing is better!
Grecia, the toucan who lost his beak in a vicious attack last year, is finally the proud owner of a 3D-printed replacement!
10 years ago
Love wild dogs? This 360° video makes you part of the pack
Want to spend a bit of time surrounded by a pack of wild dogs? Right this way ...
10 years ago
How do you track down elusive bats? You call in a poop-sniffing Labrador
How do you invent a better way of finding small, secretive, inconspicuous animals like bats? Hint: it involves hanging bags of poop in trees.
10 years ago
It took 200 years to prove this jellyfish is real – and now it’s breeding in captivity
When it comes to jellyfish, this is pretty much as rare and elusive as it gets.
10 years ago
Shark-tracking robot gets chomped by great white, lives to tell the tale
Shark: 1. Underwater drone: 0.
10 years ago
Sometimes milking an emu for semen is all in a day's work
Ah yes, the joys of farming: waking up at the crack of dawn, milking the cows, collecting eggs ... and artificially inseminating emus.
10 years ago
Need to identify a fossil? There's an app for that
Love fossils? Then you'll want to get your hands on the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life, a new app that lets anyone with an iPhone discover and classify...
10 years ago
See the first sharks we've ever tagged in Asian waters
In a move to unlock some of the secrets of sharks' nomadic lifestyles, a team of scientists, conservationists and professional athletes is setting...
10 years ago
UK airport gets Star Wars-inspired ‘lightsaber laser’ to prevent bird strikes
In an airfield far, far away (well, Scotland), officials are testing out some Star Wars-inspired tech to prevent bird strikes.
10 years ago
3D scans take us inside a 7.2-metre shark
Take a look inside the body of a massive basking shark, caught recently off the coast of Australia.
10 years ago
Spot the difference: Researchers use infrared light to ID Malaysia's rare black leopards
The rare black leopards on the Malay Peninsula hide their spots well, making it difficult to tell one cat from another. But one group of researchers...
10 years ago
Scientists are tracking Coco the turtle to learn about its mysterious migration
Thanks to a small tracker attached to its shell, Coco the loggerhead turtle is cruising the waters of the Pacific and providing scientists with...
10 years ago
