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Wildlife includes organisms that grow or live in areas without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems on Earth including deserts, forests, grasslands, and plains and is usually affected by human activity.
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FEB 23, 2015Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 22, 2015Plants & Animals
Gray wolves throughout the eastern and western United States were downlisted from endangered to threatened status effect ...Written By: Greg CruikshankFEB 02, 2015Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 02, 2014Earth & The Environment
Did you know that the word "galaxy" comes from the Greek work for milk because the night sky was so awash with stars tha ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 25, 2014Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct. ...Written By: Peter MicheliSEP 09, 2014Plants & Animals
As more of the natural environment is lost to development, some species suffer, but others thrive even as biodiversity d ...Written By: Peter MicheliJUN 20, 2014Videos
A strange and oddly beautiful video about a fungi that invades the body of insects to grow and control the insect popula ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAY 08, 2014Earth & The Environment
Sometimes archaeological discoveries are made in places where you least expect them. That was certainly the case for a r ...APR 30, 2014Earth & The Environment
To conservationists, the so-called "equilibrium theory of island biogeography" is a standard assumption used when predic ...FEB 13, 2014Genetics & Genomics
While you may know that polar bears adapt to their extremely cold environment, you probably don't know how they do it. N ...
FEB 23, 2015
Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 22, 2015
Plants & Animals
Gray wolves throughout the eastern and western United States were downlisted from endangered to threatened status effect
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
FEB 02, 2015
Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2014
Earth & The Environment
Did you know that the word "galaxy" comes from the Greek work for milk because the night sky was so awash with stars tha
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
There have been five "mass extinctions" on Earth. These are periods when extremely large numbers of species go extinct.
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
SEP 09, 2014
Plants & Animals
As more of the natural environment is lost to development, some species suffer, but others thrive even as biodiversity d
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JUN 20, 2014
Videos
A strange and oddly beautiful video about a fungi that invades the body of insects to grow and control the insect popula
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAY 08, 2014
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes archaeological discoveries are made in places where you least expect them. That was certainly the case for a r
...
APR 30, 2014
Earth & The Environment
To conservationists, the so-called "equilibrium theory of island biogeography" is a standard assumption used when predic
...
FEB 13, 2014
Genetics & Genomics
While you may know that polar bears adapt to their extremely cold environment, you probably don't know how they do it. N
...