More from Laura Baisas (Page 2)

a dish of vanilla ice cream

Vanilla could help heal wounds

By Laura Baisas

a white sea cucumber with horns

57 new species discovered in deep-sea canyon near Argentina

By Laura Baisas

Extinct ice age bovine discovered in Siberian cave

By Laura Baisas

an arch made of volcanic rock over an ocean

Hawaii’s 550-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the ocean

By Laura Baisas

broccoli growing under solar panels with some pink light

Pink light helps broccoli grow

By Laura Baisas

There’s still ice leftover from the last ice age

By Laura Baisas

a butterfly wing with rainbow lights following it

Butterfly wings create dazzling optical illusions

By Laura Baisas

an eagle sitting on a nest as the sun rises

How to watch Jackie the bald eagle’s memorial service

By Laura Baisas

a painting of two ducks with black and white feathers flying above snow-capped mountrains

Since 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp has raised $1.3 billion for habitat conservation

By Laura Baisas

a bird with a blue beak opens it wide

The world’s loudest birds squawk as loud as a jackhammer

By Laura Baisas

the backs of two eagles perched on a tree

Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee share a peaceful morning, Jackie’s memorial service approaches

By Laura Baisas

The general view of the archaeological site of Oplontis in Torre Annunziata, Italy. The archaeological site of Oplontis is one of the wonders returned after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD together with the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Rocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction—that could help us today

By Laura Baisas

a man with a mustache and curly hair poses with a lot of breakfast cereal

Asteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

By Laura Baisas

a large brown bear walks by a river with its snout in the water

How to help Katmai’s brown bears this Fat Bear Week

By Laura Baisas

To test how skin-associated bacterial communities can protect tropical frog species against disease, the research team conducted a lab experiment in Brazil focusing on two frog species: ‘Ischnocnema henselii’ (left) and ‘Haddadus binotatus’ (right).

Endangered Species

Frogs wear bacterial suits of armor to fight off deadly fungus

By Laura Baisas

four coins on a map

A treasure hunt for rare coins is coming to 4 American cities

By Laura Baisas

a model of a salamander

Two moms named Jean inspired the name of a 309-million-year-old fossil

By Laura Baisas

a lemur with its mouth open in a tree

Opera singers and shrieking lemurs share vocalization strategies

By Laura Baisas

three red panda cubs

Endangered Species

Why International Red Panda Day is a big deal at the National Zoo this year

By Laura Baisas

a side by side of two large male brown bears standing in a river

The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

By Laura Baisas

a black and white photo of an otter on a river bank

Help name the Bronx River’s first otter in 100 years

By Laura Baisas

a pug stands on its back legs with its paw up on a human's knee. the pug has wide eyes and tongue hanging out since the human is holding a treat

Dog brains act surprisingly human when told ‘no’

By Laura Baisas

a bird with a bamboo skewer stick inside of it (left). the same bird reuniting with her baby (right)

Bamboo skewer safely removed from a bird’s cloaca in New York

By Laura Baisas

two small brown bears standing above a waterfall looking for salmon

The cubs from Katmai’s ‘Brady Bunch’ blended family are all grown up

By Laura Baisas

a fat bear sitting near trees

Fat Bear Week kicks off September 22

By Laura Baisas

a coiled beige-colored snake with spider-like legs on its tail

Snake that hunts with fake spider on its tail shocks scientists

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and gray feathers and a black beak looks at the camera

‘Birds Supporting Birds’ connects the Philadelphia Eagles with migrating seabirds

By Laura Baisas

a september 2026 calendar with wednesday september 9 circled in red

Why September 9 is the most common birthday

By Laura Baisas

This Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque nebula LHA 120-N44, or N44

Space Telescope

NASA’s Hubble pops in on a ‘superbubble’

By Laura Baisas

Ethel the split-colored lobster (left) and Gertrude the blue (right) were donated to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

Pair of rare, colorful lobsters have a new home in Maine

By Laura Baisas

a mother bear stands up on two hind legs and walks into the water, with two cubs following her

Katmai brown bear cubs learning how to ‘walk on water’ to nab salmon

By Laura Baisas

an eagle stands on a perch

California Wildlife Day to honor beloved bald eagle Jackie

By Laura Baisas

a small fish with silver and rainbow scales

These fish rely on teamwork to find food in murky water

By Laura Baisas

a small black fish on a sandy ocean bottom

NOAA scientists spot ‘outrageously tiny’ fish

By Laura Baisas

a bear walking by a wave on the beach

History-making mother bear could be big Fat Bear Week 2026 contender

By Laura Baisas

a white telescope launches aboard a rocket

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches

By Andrew Paul, Laura Baisas

a woman swims up to a large whale shark and puts a tag on its fin

How do you tag the world’s biggest fish? Fins and flexibility.

By Laura Baisas

a female bald eagle sits on a nest with a feather in one of her nostrils

Kaydee the bald eagle visits Shadow’s nest with a feather in her nostril

By Laura Baisas

Starlings (‘Sturnus vulgaris’) fly up from a meadow in the early morning. The migratory birds were seen currently gathering for their journey to the southern wintering grounds in Germany on October 10, 2020.

Over 200 million migratory birds are hitting the sky this week

By Laura Baisas

an eagle sitting on a nest tilts her head to the side

Bald eagle Kaydee inspects camera, helps Shadow arrange sticks

By Laura Baisas

a large male bear stands in a river

New Fat Bear Week children’s book turns Katmai’s famous bears into wrestlers

By Laura Baisas

a long reddish-brown snake coiled on a leaf

New snake species named in honor of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash

By Laura Baisas

a bear eating a salmon

Meet Bucky Dent, one of Katmai’s most innovative bears

By Laura Baisas

Ginger fluffy cat showing the flehmen response after picking up a curious scent.

Scientists pinpoint the chemicals behind a cat’s signature urine smell

By Laura Baisas

a pod of six narwhals swimming in blue-green water

Narwhal tusks are twisty, magical mathematical marvels

By Laura Baisas

the backs of two eagles in a tree

Bald eagle Shadow and new female KD1 sing a morning song

By Laura Baisas

two brown bears nuzzling each other

Don’t worry, Katmai’s brown bears didn’t vanish from Brooks Falls

By Laura Baisas

a long thin transluscent eel with pink-ish coloring

TikTok helps scientists discover new underground, translucent eel in India

By Laura Baisas

a handwritten copy of the declaration of independence

Handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence discovered in Maine

By Laura Baisas

The Battle of Gettysburg, as depicted by clay cats. The 140th New York (right) arrives and the 20th Maine (left) charges, pushing the Confederates back. The fight eventually ends on Little Round Top.

10,033 tiny clay cats reenact the Civil War at a Gettysburg museum

By Laura Baisas

a diorama of a sperm whale eating a giant squid

How one of the American Museum of Natural History’s most terrifying dioramas get clean

By Laura Baisas

an eagle on a nest with its head down

Who is KD1, the bald eagle spotted in Jackie and Shadow’s nest?

By Laura Baisas

a bear cub sits by a tree with porcupine quills in its hand

Katmai bear cub spotted with a paw full of porcupine quills

By Laura Baisas

two frogs mating on a tree branch

‘Less desirable’ males confuse female treefrogs looking for a mate

By Laura Baisas

two men with orange life jackets on in a river holding a large gray fish

300-year-old sturgeon are swimming around the Great Lakes

By Laura Baisas

a hermit crab grabbing a plant that looks like a mushroom

Hermit crab poop spreads a parasitic plant’s seeds

By Laura Baisas

two eagles on a nest

Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14

By Laura Baisas

two lizards with brown with yellow-green coloring sitting on a branch

New lizard named after colorful ‘House of the Dragon’ character

By Laura Baisas

a bald eagle on a nest

Jackie the bald eagle’s blood values drop again, still in critical condition

By Laura Baisas

a small shore bird with white, grey, and black feathers with orange legs and an orange beak

Piping plover beats the odds after losing feet in fishing line

By Laura Baisas

a sub adult eagle sitting on a nest

Outside eagle spotted on Jackie and Shadow’s nest

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and black feathers and bright red feet stands on a tree branch

Rare tropical red-footed booby spotted in Maryland

By Laura Baisas

two eagles perched on a tree branch

Bald eaglets Sandy and Luna leave Big Bear Valley, Shadow gets a little vacation

By Laura Baisas

a sea turtle wearing a satellite tag on its shell walks back into the ocean

Rescued sea turtle named Pancake swims to hot hangout for young turtles

By Laura Baisas

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