Coffee and Provocation

Lessons Learned from Saving the Mauritius Kestrel

Money matters and nest boxes boost fecundity.

Lessons Learned from Saving the Amur Tiger

Chinese policies favoring environmental stewardship, including a Natural Forest Protection Project that has reduced rural populations, and the establishment of several reserves, has paid conservation dividends.

The Dark-Skinned and Blue-eyed Irish

Prehistoric Irish hunter-gatherers from 10,000 years ago, were dark-skinned and had blue eyes.

Lost Gold!
A Danish treasure hunter found a gold hoard buried by an Iron Age chief. The 1,500-year-old hoard contains nearly 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of  gold, including large, saucer-sized medallions known as bracteates.

Tips on Violating the UK's Fox Hunting Law?
Mark Hankinson, a director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association, has been recorded allegedly instructing folks how to violate the Hunting Act laws by using trail hunting as a "smokescreen". Hankinson says the two short audio clips were taken out of context and were part of a longer talk.

Ice Age Hunters Did Not Migrate in Winter

Recent discoveries at a Paleolithic site in Poland show that Ice Age hunters were active on the North European Plain in the depths of winter throughout the Ice Age. The work focused on the thousands of Artic Fox bones and teeth unearthed at the site and determined that many were killed in late winter when their fur was at its longest and thickest.