Alex Tilney

On August 5, a federal judge in Missoula, Montana, vacated a 2024 ruling by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that refused to re-list the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act. The decision threatens the current status of this wolf population and could...

On July 16, US Representative Shri Thanedar of Michigan introduced House Resolution 4422, the “Don’t Feed The Bears” bill, whose name might seem promising at first glance: Will this bill enforce strict penalties against people feeding bears grain and molasses in their backyards? Will it provide...

Scientists at Purdue University have recently proposed a new and somewhat hard-to-swallow explanation for a longstanding question about early hominid diets. Tests of the bone tissue of ancient Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have consistently turned up extremely high levels of nitrogen, an element...

This month, a traditional hunting weapon was revealed to be much more traditional than previously thought. In 1985, a boomerang carved out of mammoth tusk was discovered in the Obłazowa Cave in southern Poland. This thing is big: more than two feet long, perfectly semi-circular, and extremely sleek...