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Young white boy in grey pullover holds a robot turtle posing in front of a small pond.

Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

By Laura Kiniry

Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday present is… a parasitic wasp

By Margherita Bassi

Close up of oyster shells

Want stronger concrete? Just add oysters.

Photo of the Pope Leo moth with dark orange wings broken up by white bands

New moth species named for Pope Leo

Purple martin in flight

370 million birds will migrate tonight

Close up of speartooth shark

Shark lasers could help save vulnerable species

a toucan with a colorful green, orange, and red beak and yellow and black feathers

14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab

By Margherita Bassi

a whale breaching with a bridge in view

‘Save Willy Act’ introduced in California to help save whales in Bay Area

By Margherita Bassi

a brown bear eating a piece of salmon in a river

Fat Bear Week champion Chunk spotted taking a stroll in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

a chicken with brown and white stripes and large orange sacks on the sides of its head

A rare prairie chicken shakes his butt all day to attract ladies

By Laura Baisas

Chonkers the Steller sea lion sleeping along side other, much smaller California sea lions

Chonkers the 2,000-pound sea lion is making waves in San Francisco Bay

Iceberg underwater, Antarctica.

300-degree hot springs hiding under the frozen Antarctic sea

A large Virginia opossum bedded down in leaves and showing its teeth

Scientists sacrifice delicious opossums to fight Florida’s invasive pythons

tiger amongst mangroves

8 cool images from the Mangrove Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

A wide-angle landscape photograph shows a lone hiker standing on the extreme edge of a sheer granite cliff, overlooking a vast mountain valley. The hiker is dwarfed by the massive, rugged rock formations and the deep, evergreen-covered canyon below. The distant mountains are shrouded in a light blue haze under a clear, bright sky, emphasizing the immense scale and potential danger of the high-altitude wilderness.

Someone dies in a national park. Now what?

By Jennifer Byrne

50,000 illegal shark fins found inside fake car part boxes

Woman's hands washing red apples in kitchen sink

Biodegradable wash keeps grapes fresh for 2 weeks at room temperature

A common snapping turtle crosses the road after laying eggs.

How to help a turtle cross the road

By Laura Baisas

Sage-Grouse robot installed in ground at Grand Teton National Park

Robot birds deployed in Grand Teton National Park for sexy time

Two humpback whales underwater

513 humpback whales gather at massive Caribbean breeding ground