More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

a split picture with a babbon that has a red and grey face and white fur and a bird with bright white and black feathers
Wildlife

Ancient Egyptian god of magic is sometimes a bird, sometimes a baboon. Now we know why.

By Margherita Bassi

a side by side of vets holding a baby giraffe
Wildlife

Premature baby giraffe keeps beating the odds after emergency C-section

By Margherita Bassi

a large jellyfish with several long tentacles and a red and white center
Wildlife

World’s largest jellyfish spotted near Cape Cod

By Margherita Bassi

two sperm whales sleeping vertically
Whales

Sperm whales blow bubbles to help them nap

By Margherita Bassi

insect larvae under a microscope. they are long cylinders with small white blobs next to them. the blobs are air sacs
Insects

Insects survive 1,213 feet of pressure under water, defying physics

By Margherita Bassi

a koala holding on to a tree
Endangered Species

Koala nicknamed ‘teddy bear’ receives first chlamydia vaccine implant

By Margherita Bassi

Goats participating in the 2025 Great Goat Graze-Off.
Agriculture

Mallomar wins the 2026 Great Goat Graze-Off

By Margherita Bassi

a small, spiky mammal with a long nose burrowing in dirt
Wildlife

Echidna ‘puggles’ weigh less than a mini marshmallow

By Margherita Bassi

a baby skunk with its paws on a white plate
Wildlife

Found a baby skunk? Please don’t feed it.

By Margherita Bassi

a mother seal gives a baby seal a swimming lesson underneath ice
Ocean

Baby seal gets a swimming lesson

By Margherita Bassi

red octopus
Wildlife

Weighing an octopus starts with a laundry basket

By Margherita Bassi

pigeon wearing a camera and backpack
Birds

Why researchers gave pigeons tiny backpacks 

By Margherita Bassi

text on background
Archaeology

60% of medieval knight tales lost to time

By Margherita Bassi

an adult tiger lays down with three cubs
Wildlife

Three tiger cubs born in Kansas

By Margherita Bassi

A group of dwarf mongooses under threat from a rival group.
Wildlife

Dwarf mongooses don’t just wait for danger

By Margherita Bassi

a vet examines a lion on a surgery table
Wildlife

Lion undergoes double cataract surgery

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of four silver forks with four different bugs on them
Insects

You may actually like eating bugs

By Margherita Bassi

Skeleton in the fetal position on gravel with a mortar near his head. A chalk board has some information on the side.
Archaeology

AI makes Pompeii victim’s final moments look shockingly real

By Margherita Bassi

a black and white photograph of two skeletons in a grave
Archaeology

Oldest traces of plague discovered in prehistoric teens buried in Russia

By Margherita Bassi

a baby pygmy hippo walking
Endangered Species

Hallo Brötchen! Berlin Zoo welcomes baby pygmy hippo

By Margherita Bassi

a smal, fuzzy spider stands on a leaf with one of its forearms outstretched
Photography

Jumping spiders inspire wildly efficient 3D camera

By Margherita Bassi

a small wild dog in a forest
Dogs

Mysterious Amazonian ‘ghost dog’ caught on camera

By Margherita Bassi

a black and white photograph of a japanese freighter ship called the Hōfuku Maru
Archaeology

Long-lost World War II ‘Hellship’ may have finally been found

By Margherita Bassi

a silhouetted man walks by a blazing sun
Engineering

Arizona students design app that calculates least-sweaty walking route

By Margherita Bassi

Left: The painting depicts a corner of Munich’s Odeonsplatz, with the Bavarian flag flying over the square. X-ray fluorescence analysis shows where areas have been overpainted with titanium white. Right: False-colour representation of the reconstructed painting featuring the memorial and the Nazi flag.
Science

Hidden Nazi symbols discovered in famous German artist’s painting

By Margherita Bassi

a small wild cat playing with a ball of catnip
Cats

Even wild desert cats love catnip

By Margherita Bassi

a woman in a boat holds a very large fish
Fish

Sturgeon sex creates thundering noise in New York

By Margherita Bassi

a brown tick on a blade of grass
Insects

Fact or myth? Ticks can drop out of trees like paratroopers.

By Margherita Bassi

two turkey chicks in a box with a feather duster as a stand-in for its mother
Birds

Orphaned baby turkeys think a feather duster is their mom

By Margherita Bassi

an aerial view of a lake in scotland with a human made island visible underneath the water
Archaeology

Scotland’s ancient human-made islands are dripping with secrets

By Margherita Bassi

an orangutan mother and child stare down at researchers from a tree
Endangered Species

Orangutan poop holds surprising clues about how long they breastfeed

By Margherita Bassi

a woman wearing a black mask bathes a raccoon in a blue bowl
Wildlife

Baby raccoon found in chimney gets a nice bubble bath

By Margherita Bassi

a green moray eel is examined by veteranrians
Fish

Thomas the moray eel goes to the doctor

By Margherita Bassi

a graphic that reads moon joy june
NASA

How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

By Margherita Bassi

a woman in a blue baseball cap holds a turtle on the beach
Ocean

Rare hybrid sea turtle released back into the ocean after rescue

By Margherita Bassi

a pigeon with grey, green, black, and purple feathers
Birds

Pigeons use their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field

By Margherita Bassi

a small horse galloping
Endangered Species

Rare Przewalski’s horse born in New York

By Margherita Bassi

two human doctors holding a baby gorilla
Endangered Species

Doctors perform rare emergency C-section on a gorilla

By Margherita Bassi

a sleeping baby gorilla
Endangered Species

Pregnant gorillas undergo ultrasounds and the results might look familiar

By Margherita Bassi

two sea slugs that are transluscent with yellow and black spots
Wildlife

Seed-size sea slug looks like an everything bagel

By Margherita Bassi

a bobcat in an enclosure
Wildlife

Bobcat that survived being hit by a car gets a custom-built kennel

By Margherita Bassi

a mother big horn sheep with three babies
Wildlife

It’s baby season at Yellowstone National Park

By Margherita Bassi

a bird with blue plumage and a broad blue bill squawks in a tree
Birds

The boat-billed heron looks fake but is very real

By Margherita Bassi

pages from a manuscript
Science

The unexpected science hiding in Dante’s ‘Inferno’

By Margherita Bassi

a beetle with black and red coloring
Insects

61 new beetles discovered in China

By Margherita Bassi

a shark swimming in dark waters
Sharks

Mysterious giant sharks that outlived the dinosaurs lurking in Puget Sound

By Margherita Bassi

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

five different views of a neanderthal tooth with a cavity that was filled
Archaeology

Neanderthal ‘dentists’ treated cavities 59,000 years ago

By Margherita Bassi

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
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