More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

two mayflies mating
Insects

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

By Margherita Bassi

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

a wasp's head
Insects

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

By Margherita Bassi

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

14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab

By Margherita Bassi

a whale breaching with a bridge in view
Ocean

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

By Margherita Bassi

a grizzly bear in the woods
Bears

CAUTION: That dead elk in Yellowstone could be grizzly bear bait

By Margherita Bassi

an graphic rendering of a time capsule shaped like a cylinder
Science

Do not open until July 4, 2276: U.S. buries a ‘zombie-proof’ time capsule

By Margherita Bassi

a spider web on grass
Spiders

How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service

By Margherita Bassi

a parrot with blue and yellow feathers and an open mouth
Birds

Parrots use names to talk to each other

By Margherita Bassi

a silver medieval coin in the palm of a person's hand
Archaeology

Metal detectorists discover rare, Anglo-Saxon coins likely hidden from Vikings

By Margherita Bassi

a sea turtle on a vet's table
Endangered Species

Meet Earl Grey, the sea turtle with a wild family tree

By Margherita Bassi

a diver exploring a shipwreck while a boat bobs on the surface
Archaeology

2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck unlocks mysteries of how ships were built and repaired

By Margherita Bassi

a baby otter
Endangered Species

Earth’s largest otters have chocolate bar-sized babies

By Margherita Bassi

Crimson (left) was rescued shortly after Clover(right).
Wildlife

Two mountain lion cubs rescued from certain death

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of an extinct hedgehog like animal
Animals

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

By Margherita Bassi

a bright red bird with a long beak
Birds

Hawaiian forest birds are stealing each other’s twigs

By Margherita Bassi

a flower with red petals and a large pole-like center growing in a tropical forest
Biology

Rare rotting-flesh smelling flower blooming at a Massachusetts college

By Margherita Bassi

a lobster in a pot of boiling water
Wildlife

Yes, your lobster dinner probably died an excruciating death

By Margherita Bassi

tortoise_with_wheels
Wildlife

Injured turtle gets a second chance on four wheels 

By Margherita Bassi

adult owl and baby owl
Birds

Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet

By Margherita Bassi

two cheetah cubs
Endangered Species

Two cheetah cubs narrowly escape the illegal pet trade

By Margherita Bassi

baby oppossum on a stick
Wildlife

What to do if you find a baby opossum 

By Margherita Bassi

A side-by-side composite image features a portrait of naturalist Sir David Attenborough on the left and the bird named in his honor, the Inambari Gnatcatcher (Polioptila attenboroughi), on the right. Attenborough is shown smiling against a bright blue background, while the small, grey and white gnatcatcher is perched on a tree branch among green leaves in its Brazilian habitat.
Spiders

6 famous people with animals named in their honor

By Margherita Bassi

a pink orchid with delicate petals
Bees

Beware, bees! This wildflower will trap you in a floral escape room.

By Margherita Bassi

Terracotta incense burner with the investigated ash residues. The rim is adorned with three female figures, probably depicting deceased persons who were venerated after their death.
Archaeology

What did Pompeii smell like before it burned?

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a baby chick
Birds

Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle

By Margherita Bassi

The talons of an immature bald eagle.
Birds

Rescued birds treated to a pedicure—or talon trim

By Margherita Bassi

a baby squirrel with brown fur sits on a man's shoulder
Wildlife

Baby squirrels are here! Here’s what to do if you find one.

By Margherita Bassi

two pages of an ancient book. one has text while the other has an illustration of a saint
Archaeology

Long-lost page from Greek manuscript discovered in French art museum

By Margherita Bassi

a blue whale swimming
Ocean

Marine biologists spot rare blue whales off Massachusetts coast

By Margherita Bassi

a bird chick sits on a nest
Birds

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick

By Margherita Bassi

a hedgehog
Wildlife

Scientists suggest modifying cars to hit fewer hedgehogs

By Margherita Bassi

a black bird sits on a tree
Birds

These birds listen to their parents to avoid being eaten

By Margherita Bassi

a dolphin (left) and a more rounded porpoise (right)
Ocean

Florida can’t decide if its official saltwater mammal is a dolphin or a porpoise

By Margherita Bassi

a bobcat on a colorful blanket
Wildlife

Wild bobcat making remarkable recovery after getting hit by car

By Margherita Bassi

a white rat and a black rat looking out of a cage
Pets

163 surrendered rats seek new homes in Massachusetts

By Margherita Bassi

a pink flamingo standing in water (left). a blue songbird sitting on a tree branch (right)
Birds

Florida considers making the flamingo its state bird

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of a woman wearing an ancient headdress made with antler bones, fur, and teeth
Archaeology

7,000-year-old deer antler headdress uncovered in Germany

By Margherita Bassi

a horse standing in a green field with its mouth open
Agriculture

Horse whinnies are weirder than they sound

By Margherita Bassi

a woman holds a large lizard. it has black and white scales and is sticking out a red tongue tipped black
Wildlife

Frostbitten lizard found in Rhode Island is healing

By Margherita Bassi

bones laid out in a grave
Archaeology

Stone Age burial ground reveals deep family trees

By Margherita Bassi

A great white shark swims near Guadalupe Island in Mexico.
Sharks

Great white sharks don’t always flee after orca attacks

By Margherita Bassi

a monkey with white and black fur and a blue-ish face sits in a tree
Endangered Species

Blue-faced, puffy-lipped monkey scores a rare conservation win

By Margherita Bassi

a parrot with mostly green feathers and yellow feathers on the neck
Birds

The parrots having human-like conversations

By Margherita Bassi

a tunnel under roman ruins
Archaeology

Inside the Colosseum’s Passage of Commodus, where emperors once walked

By Margherita Bassi

a hamster asleep in the gloved hand of a scientist
Biology

How hibernating hamsters could help astronauts

By Margherita Bassi

the sun hits a waterfall so it looks like fire
Environment

Yosemite’s glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again

By Margherita Bassi

white bird poop on a black car
Archaeology

Bird poop powered this pre-Hispanic kingdom

By Margherita Bassi

a new species of lady bug. it is black and the size of a grain of sand
Insects

New ladybug species is the size of a grain of sand

By Margherita Bassi

a sea turtle swimming with a boat in the distance
Endangered Species

The world’s smallest sea turtle lives in a noisy ocean

By Margherita Bassi

fake images of wild horses standing on a beach wrapped in pink mattress-like insulation material
Social Media

No, North Carolina’s wild horses were not wrapped in insulation

By Margherita Bassi

a small primate with large eyes clings to a branch
Endangered Species

This wide-eyed baby primate is cute, cuddly—and venomous

By Margherita Bassi

a green caterpillar on a plant's stem
Insects

Caterpillars use tiny hairs to hear

By Margherita Bassi

a large dark millipede
Wildlife

These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida

By Margherita Bassi

a shark with brownish yellow scales and spots curled up among coral
Fish

‘Walking sharks’ lay eggs without breaking a sweat

By Margherita Bassi

a jellyfish with a red center, blue circle on the outer part of its body, and small tentavles
Ocean

Perplexing blue button jelly looks like something out of ‘Lord of the Rings’

By Margherita Bassi

The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex is seen in the Dinosaur Gallery of the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.
Biology

Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size

By Margherita Bassi

Three harvest mice playing around and entwining their tails together to stop them from falling.
Wildlife

Female mice often have multiple sexual partners—for survival

By Margherita Bassi

a young chimpanzee hanging upside down in a tree
Wildlife

Baby chimpanzees like to free fall through trees

By Margherita Bassi

a bird with long legs and colorful feathers
Birds

A giant-footed bird showed up in a Massachusetts backyard. It didn’t belong there.

By Margherita Bassi

a medieval ring made of gold with a large blue stone at the center
Archaeology

Ornate medieval ring discovered in Norway’s oldest town

By Margherita Bassi

a mother whale and calf
Ocean

2026 is off to a hopeful start for these critically endangered whales

By Margherita Bassi

a small cat walking on leaves
Endangered Species

Tiny wild cat spotted in Thailand for first time in 30 years

By Margherita Bassi

a butterfly with blue wings with black spots
Endangered Species

9 new butterflies discovered in old museum archives

By Margherita Bassi