quote [ A record 90 chicks have been added to the population count of the kakapo parrot in New Zealand, delighting conservationists. ]

quote [ Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño?s intensifying coincides with global warming. ]

quote [ The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest?s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous ]

quote [ The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period. ]

quote [ In the 1990s, red kites were reintroduced to England from Spain. Now, the English are returning the favor. ]

quote [ The hold-and-ram strategy allows juvenile orcas to feed on smaller chunks of tissue and may also serve as a form of social learning and play in these highly intelligent marine mammals. ]

quote [ A new, multistep chemical process can turn bits of organic waste into ?carbon-negative? fuel, food, and construction material. ]

quote [ A new global assessment of the world?s migratory species finds reason for alarm, but also hope ? and a road map for helping them survive. ]

quote [ Jimothy has become a local celebrity in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and likely has a rare congenital spine condition ]

quote [ Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater, dating back roughly 390 million years. ]