More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

a large brown bear in italy

Bears in Italy inbreed more, but are less aggressive

By Margherita Bassi

a caterpillar hanging from stick

Young moths hiss at predators

By Margherita Bassi

Man with metal detector stumbles on perplexing Viking Age grave

By Margherita Bassi

a worm on a person's hand

A professor kept a pet worm for 20 years. It just set a record.

By Margherita Bassi

white urinals separated by green plants

Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer

By Margherita Bassi

Endangered Species

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

By Margherita Bassi

a chimpanzee in green grass

Chimpanzees shock biologists with rational thinking

By Margherita Bassi

a family talking around the dinner tableSkynesher via Getty Images

Science confirms hand gestures make you seem more persuasive

By Margherita Bassi

A scan of an Arabic manuscript of the dīwān of Ibn Sanā' al-Mulk dating back to 1181-1182 (left). The Annual perseid meteor seen in the sky on August 14, 2023. The meteors have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis (right).

Medieval Arabic texts help researchers track down explosive star deaths

By Margherita Bassi

ancient reindeer antlers on rocks

Hiker stumbles on massive medieval reindeer traps in Norway

By Margherita Bassi

a small brown and white owl on a brown towel

Alaska’s smallest owl gets the royal treatment after life-threatening injury

By Margherita Bassi

a teenage boy holds a robotic hand made out of legosUniversity of Bristol/Jared Lepora

Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

By Margherita Bassi

An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor.

What octopus camouflage has to do with sunscreen

By Margherita Bassi

AI created video of bunnies on a trampoline

AI videos of animals could be dangerous. Here’s how to spot them.

By Margherita Bassi

several boys sit around a tribal drum

Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language

By Margherita Bassi

a stone circle in a field

‘Extremely rare’ Roman tomb discovered in Germany

By Margherita Bassi

a plump brown spider

Beware, beachgoers: New spider discovered in California’s sand dunes

By Margherita Bassi

a dolphin blowing bubbles under water

Dolphins may be getting an Alzheimer’s-like disease due to this neurotoxin

By Margherita Bassi

Northern right whale.Eubalaena glacialis.Courting group. Several males approach a female (on left). Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are making a slow comeback

By Margherita Bassi

Archaeologists discover massive ancient Egyptian fortress

By Margherita Bassi

A ringworm mosquito (Culiseta annulata) is seen on a control monitor connected to a microscope in the laboratory for mosquito monitoring at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) on the island of Riems in Germany.

Iceland was the only country in the world without mosquitos—now they’ve found three

By Margherita Bassi

A 3D model of the ancient Roman water basin uncovered about 11 miles east of Rome.

Forgotten rival of Ancient Rome featured an impressive water basin

By Margherita Bassi

several large black antsDeposit Photos

Ants ‘social distance’ during a pandemic

By Margherita Bassi

a lemur in a tree

Lemurs keep evolving new species, even after 50 million years

By Margherita Bassi

peeled and open kiwis. they have green fruit with brown skins

Constipated? Try kiwis.

By Margherita Bassi

two gecko species

Geckos living in the driest place on Earth stump scientists

By Margherita Bassi

two baby rabbits sit in an open box with grass

Endangered Species

15 baby rabbits born at an NYC zoo released in New England

By Margherita Bassi

two baby komodo dragons

Endangered Species

These butter-sized hatchlings will someday be the biggest lizards on Earth

By Margherita Bassi

a bird with aqua green feathers and red feathers that look like cheeks

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species

By Margherita Bassi

a toilet in the woods, covered by wooden panels

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet could replace stinky porta-potties

By Margherita Bassi

Schimpanse Chimpanzee Pan t. troglodytes Adult weiblich female mit Jungtieren with youngs spielend playing Vorkommen: Africa Afrika

Wild chimps consume the equivalent of two glasses of wine a day

By Margherita Bassi

a squirrel on a tree branch

‘Attack squirrel’ sends two people to the ER

By Margherita Bassi

several rescue technicians hold a stranded dolphin in a net before releasing it

11 dolphins stranded in Cape Cod rescued by nonprofit

By Margherita Bassi

a september 2025 calendar with saturday the 27th circled in red

Why September 27, 2025 is the ‘coolest mathematical date of our lifetime’

By Margherita Bassi

a woman popping a red pimple on her chin

Researchers develop a pimple patch that actually seems to work

By Margherita Bassi

Anax junius In flight over water with sun reflections.

It’s dragonfly migration season!

By Margherita Bassi

a small, brown prairie dog popping out of a hole

Tiny prairie dogs’ poop play a mighty role in grasslands

By Margherita Bassi

fake spider webs for halloween

Beware! Your Halloween decorations could be a nightmare for wildlife

By Margherita Bassi

white laboratory rat isolated on grey background

Researchers successfully heal rats’ broken spines

By Margherita Bassi

hundreds of hats that were recovered from yellowstone national park laid out in front of a white pick up truck

Yellowstone employees recover over 300 hats from hydrothermal areas

By Margherita Bassi

a red slug in green grass

Ding-dong-ditch culprit turns out to be… a slug

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a bee on a bright green leaf

Bees have thousands of eyes

By Margherita Bassi

A small-billed elaenia perched on the El Jumeal dam in Argentina

A rare South American bird took a wrong turn towards Florida

By Margherita Bassi

A black-and-white tegu lizard at Iguazu Falls, the waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border between Brazil and Argentina.

Summer 2025’s hottest stars were escaped lizards

By Margherita Bassi

a mule with a brown coat runs in a pen with other mules

Meet the chonky, hard-working mules of Olympic National Park

By Margherita Bassi

two small brown rodents called prairie voles

Love hormone could be key to friendship

By Margherita Bassi

three ants working together

Ants are better at teamwork than humans

By Margherita Bassi

A nestling bald eagle in Arizona.

Bald eagles stun scientists with bizarre migration pattern

By Margherita Bassi

a raccoon with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head

Young raccoon saved from a sticky situation

By Margherita Bassi

a long, cylindrical blue-green mollusck sits on a rock under the ocean

Unsuspecting sea creature has Earth’s hardest teeth

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a groundhog on the grass

Three orphaned groundhogs released back into the wild

By Margherita Bassi

an injured owl with wide eyes

Throwing food out of your car can kill owls

By Margherita Bassi

a man kneels down by a tranquilized rhino and applies a substance to its horn

Endangered Species

How to stop rhino poaching: make their horns radioactive

By Margherita Bassi

a hammerhead shark swimming in blue water

Hammerhead sharks eat other sharks—and it’s worth the risk

By Margherita Bassi

a purple crab stands on green moss in thailand

Rare purple crabs spotted in Thailand

By Margherita Bassi

a painting with cool pastel colors and with visible snake scales

This painting uses leather from an invasive Burmese python

By Margherita Bassi

Marsh Rabbit, Sylvilagus floridanus. Dark brown, small-footed rabbit found in wetlands from SE Virginia to Florida. Green Cay Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida.

Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight invasive pythons

By Margherita Bassi

woman holding shark upside down next to a boat

How to operate on a shark in 10 minutes or less

By Margherita Bassi

birds everywhere near the road

Riding a bike through the world’s largest albatross colony

By Margherita Bassi

Why ancient people depicted elks as wolfish monsters

By Margherita Bassi

a beaver swimming in water. its eyes, nose, ears, and back are exposed

Beavers put to work saving two Utah rivers

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of an ancient mole species. it has long claws, a pink snout, brown fur, and is crawling out of a hole by a lake

Prehistoric ‘scalopini’ mole fossil uncovered in an ancient Spanish volcano crater

By Margherita Bassi

two bears in an enclosure playing with sticks

5 of the most ingenious animal escapes of 2025, so far

By Margherita Bassi

five goats eating vegetation in a park

G.O.A.T. will be crowned in first-ever professional eating competition for goats

By Margherita Bassi

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