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a baby deer walking into a home

The remarkable bond between a man and a deer

By Paul Bochner

giant green waterlillies

New water lily can be seen from space

By Margherita Bassi

Small brown bird drinks blood from wound of white and black boobie.

Real-life vampire birds hunt and drink blood in remote Ecuador

By Clarissa Brincat

a walrus calf laying on an orange mat

Orphaned walrus calf rescued from nearby polar bears in Alaska

By Margherita Bassi

a side by side of a sleeping bat with an awake bat

Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

By Margherita Bassi

Macro Studio Shot Of Woman's Eye With Close Up On Eyelashes And Pupil

Your eyes dilate depending on your thoughts

ancient human evolution drawing showing different hominid species walking to the right towards homo sapiens.

Humans were never built for tails. Here’s why.

By Popular Science Team

two california condors

Condors get the ‘zoomies’ too

By Margherita Bassi

Front and back photos of Neanderthal scapula with clear, circular puncture wound

75,000 years ago, this Neanderthal was stabbed with a spear

Old engraved illustration of witchcraft at Salem Village, trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693

In 1976, a college paper blamed the Salem witch trials on moldy bread. It wasn’t true.

By Jennifer Byrne

Jackie the bald eagle’s final cause of death revealed

By Laura Baisas

a white fungus growing on wood

When ‘T. rex’ died, a new giant fungus named ‘D-rex’ took over

By Laura Baisas

a team of six sled dogs running

Sled dogs have stubby legs for a reason

By Laura Baisas

two polar bears on a shoreline

How to watch Churchill’s famous polar bears live

By Laura Baisas

an orange and black butterfly in a human hand (left). a person uses a cotton swab to apply cornstarch to a butterfly's wings

Monarch butterfly saved after landing in refried beans

By Laura Baisas

Commuters walking at Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo

In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026

By Mack DeGeurin

a bee stinging human skin

Bee stingers work like saws to pump venom

By Laura Baisas

Chihuahua standing on back of Great Dane

Large dog breeds die younger. Biologists think they finally know why.

a small mouse by some corn kernels

North America’s tiniest mammals are living at a Marine Corps training area. That’s good.

By Margherita Bassi

a small white weasel licks its chops while eating meat covered in blood

8 fierce animals show just how metal nature is

By Popular Science Team