During my time as a zookeeper I had the privilege of working with both Sumatran and Amur tigers. If they did not both have stripes, you would think they were different species altogether. The Sumatran ...

Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild, but now new research aims to give conservationists an improved understanding of their genetics to help save them. After years of debate, scientists report ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Sumatran rhino populations living in Borneo and Sumatra have been genetically separated for hundreds of thousands of years. The species as a ...

When recognising a new species or subspecies, a “holotype” (i.e., the specimen from which the subspecies or species was first described) is required. The holotype for Calyptorhynchus banksii ...