Wildlife

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spiders with happy faces
Spiders

Newly discovered spider has smiley face on its back

By Andrew Paul

a close-up of a black and yellow bumblebee landing on the yellow center of an orange flower
Wildlife

Worker bees have power to pick their queen

By Laura Baisas

small dingo bones in soil with a yellow tape measure showing size
Wildlife

1,000-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

By Laura Baisas

a shark swimming in dark waters
Sharks

Mysterious giant sharks that outlived the dinosaurs lurking in Puget Sound

By Margherita Bassi

baby eagles with parent in nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets practice stomping and flapping

By Popular Science Team

a small kangaroo with brown fur sits in a tree and eats a long green plant
Wildlife

Watch adorable animals compete for best chewer in 2026 Crunch-a-Thon

By Margherita Bassi

a robot scouring a reef
Fish

It’s a barracuda! It’s a shrimp! It’s a robot helping coral reefs.

By Mack DeGeurin

A photo of the Guangxi reed snake on the forest floor
Wildlife

‘Two-headed snake’ confuses predators

By Andrew Paul

A young three-toed sloth climbing in a tree peers out at camera from moss-covered branches.
Wildlife

Why sloths risk their lives to poop

By Jennifer Byrne

Chikao Umezawa, head of JA Kisarazu-shi, posed for a photo beside a robot named "Super Monster Wolf", a solar powered robot designed to scare away wildlife from farmers crops in Kisarazu, southwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan on August 10, 2017. Wolf Bot uses an infrared ray sensor when wild animals approach. It begins to intimidate wild animals by flashing red LED lights from its eyes on and off and blaring 48 repeated different types of loud sounds. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NUR Photo) (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Bears

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

By Andrew Paul

Goose flying behind wind turbine
Bats

Birds avoid wind turbines painted like venomous snakes

By Andrew Paul

hairy ghost pipefish Solenostomus snuffleupagus, which looks like Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street
Fish

Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef

By Andrew Paul

Spread wings of a wild crested caracara in South Texas USA
Birds

There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants

By Stephen Brusatte / The Conversation

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

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

By Laura Kiniry

two bald eagle chicks
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets can now see like their parents

By Popular Science Team

a baby elephant walking under an adult
Endangered Species

Meet Sam Houston, the new baby Asian elephant

By Margherita Bassi

a leopard cub in a sugarcane field
Wildlife

Leopard moms hide babies in sugarcane fields to go hunting

By Margherita Bassi

two mayflies mating
Wildlife

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

By Margherita Bassi

a white bison calf walking next to an adult bison in tall prairie grass
Wildlife

One-in-a-million white bison calf born in Iowa

By Laura Baisas

a team of vets puts a wire frame on a turtle's shell
Wildlife

Vet constructs ingenious contraption to help a tortoise hit by a car

By Margherita Bassi