More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

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

a large brown bear in italy
Bears

Bears in Italy inbreed more, but are less aggressive

By Margherita Bassi

a caterpillar hanging from stick
Insects

Young moths hiss at predators 

By Margherita Bassi

skeleton
Archaeology

Man with metal detector stumbles on perplexing Viking Age grave

By Margherita Bassi

a worm on a person's hand
Wildlife

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

By Margherita Bassi

white urinals separated by green plants
Biology

Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer

By Margherita Bassi

a brown snail
Endangered Species

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

By Margherita Bassi

a chimpanzee in green grass
Wildlife

Chimpanzees shock biologists with rational thinking

By Margherita Bassi

a family talking around the dinner tableSkynesher via Getty Images
Psychology

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).
Black Holes

Medieval Arabic texts help researchers track down explosive star deaths

By Margherita Bassi

ancient reindeer antlers on rocks
Archaeology

Hiker stumbles on massive medieval reindeer traps in Norway

By Margherita Bassi

a small brown and white owl on a brown towel
Birds

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
Robots

Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

By Margherita Bassi

An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor.
Biology

What octopus camouflage has to do with sunscreen

By Margherita Bassi

AI created video of bunnies on a trampoline
AI

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

By Margherita Bassi

several boys sit around a tribal drum
Science

Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language

By Margherita Bassi

a stone circle in a field
Archaeology

‘Extremely rare’ Roman tomb discovered in Germany

By Margherita Bassi

a plump brown spider
Spiders

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

By Margherita Bassi

a dolphin blowing bubbles under water
Ocean

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
Whales

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are making a slow comeback 

By Margherita Bassi

rocks in sand
Archaeology

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.
Insects

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.
Archaeology

Forgotten rival of Ancient Rome featured an impressive water basin

By Margherita Bassi

several large black antsDeposit Photos
Insects

Ants ‘social distance’ during a pandemic

By Margherita Bassi

a lemur in a tree
Wildlife

Lemurs keep evolving new species, even after 50 million years

By Margherita Bassi

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

Constipated? Try kiwis.

By Margherita Bassi

two gecko species
Animals

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
Birds

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species

By Margherita Bassi

a toilet in the woods, covered by wooden panels
Land

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
Wildlife

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

By Margherita Bassi

a squirrel on a tree branch
Wildlife

‘Attack squirrel’ sends two people to the ER

By Margherita Bassi

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

11 dolphins stranded in Cape Cod rescued by nonprofit

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

By Margherita Bassi