More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

two pups with mom

Tiny ‘chaos potatoes’ show off parkour moves

By Margherita Bassi

a turtle swimming with harness

Sea turtle struck by boat is recovering in a 3D-printed harness

By Margherita Bassi

WWII bomb on sand

World War II shell detonated on British Coast

By Margherita Bassi

dinosaur amongst rainy and mud puddles

First Diplodocus fossils found outside of United States

By Margherita Bassi

a dark rat sniffs out a piece of chocolate with a candle in it

Rats make an ultrasonic sound when they eat chocolate

By Margherita Bassi

snails on a paper towel with a bright orange dot on their shells

500 snails mailed to Tahiti to reclaim their natural habitat

By Margherita Bassi

a california condor chick stands in an incubator. it has fluffy white and gray feathers

Single California condor mother gets help raising her chick

By Margherita Bassi

two elephants with their heads and trunks together

Smart elephants can look before they leap

By Margherita Bassi

Lionesses and cubs from one of the prides Barker worked with at Etosha National Park; the collared lioness is visible on the left.

New data flips the narrative on how lions and hyenas interact in the wild

By Margherita Bassi

A student works with papyrus.

How ‘cornflakes’ can help decode ancient writing

By Margherita Bassi

tropical fish swim in a tank

Nearly 500 animals rescued from trafficking arrive at a California aquarium

By Margherita Bassi

a mother humpback whale and calf

Australia’s humpback whales were acting weird. What happened next surprised scientists.

By Margherita Bassi

a diver swims in a tank with a sting ray

Happy Birth-ray! Mystic the cownose ray turns 27

By Margherita Bassi

three wild dog puppies opening their mouth

Bush dog puppies sound like birds

By Margherita Bassi

video game-esque recreation of pompeii's main forum

Explore what Pompeii looked like before catastrophic eruption

By Margherita Bassi

three images of a raccoon being rescued from a drain grate. he is stuck in the first, a team is helping him in the second, and is free in the third

Raccoon rescued after sticking its head in a Cape Cod drain grate

By Margherita Bassi

a black bear walking on a grassy area

Virginia scientists discover the cues black bears use for hibernation

By Margherita Bassi

a frog sits in a lake. it has a brown body with black spots

Endangered Species

Over 10,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs are taking California by storm

By Margherita Bassi

an aerial photo of a whale shark swimming. it has a large wide mouth, and a blue-gray body with white spots

Over 2,000 animals spotted off the coast of Cape Cod

By Margherita Bassi

a turtle with a telemetry device on its shell

Endangered Species

How do you find Eastern box turtle nests? You’ll need a spool of thread.

By Margherita Bassi

a sloth gets accupuncture

Florida zoo treats a manatee, a duck, and a chick with acupuncture

By Margherita Bassi

a marmot stands on sticks

Vote for your favorite chonky rodent during Fat Marmot Week

By Margherita Bassi

Researchers make a ticklishness body map

By Margherita Bassi

raccoons wrestling one another at night

Baby raccoon wrestling shenanigans caught on wildlife center camera

By Margherita Bassi

An engraving from “The Story of the Norman Conquest” by Daniel Maclise. Pope Alexander II is consecrating a banner for William the Conqueror’s service in his descent upon England and granting a ring containing a hair of St. Peter.

Long-lost letter reveals bitter struggle between two rival popes

By Margherita Bassi

a fragment of parchment on display in a musuem

Oldest known ‘Odyssey’ fragment on display in New York City

By Margherita Bassi

a whale sticks its head out of the water

Southern right whales have bumpy ‘fingerprints’ on their heads

By Margherita Bassi

a butterfly with orange, black, and white coloring and wearing a long, thin radio transmitter sits on a green plant

Putting tiny backpacks on butterflies—for science

By Margherita Bassi

a baby penguin chick with fuzzy gray feathers sits on a pink towel

New ‘desert’ penguin chick arrives in Seattle

By Margherita Bassi

a baby sea turtle in the sand

What to do if you find a baby turtle

By Margherita Bassi

a puma crossing the road

Pumas can help prevent car crashes

By Margherita Bassi

a yellow banana slug curled up on a green fern

Watching a banana slug chomp greens with thousands of tiny teeth is oddly soothing

By Margherita Bassi

a vet holds a hummingbird in a gloved hand, with a pair of tweezers in the other

Pennsylvania vets fix a hummingbird’s tiny broken wing with tweezers

By Margherita Bassi

a white mice with pink eyes

Wildlife center needs 31,725 frozen mice a year

By Margherita Bassi

a white porcupine

Rare baby albino porcupine rescued in Maine

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

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

World’s largest jellyfish spotted near Cape Cod

By Margherita Bassi

two sperm whales sleeping vertically

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 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.

Mallomar wins the 2026 Great Goat Graze-Off

By Margherita Bassi

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

Echidna ‘puggles’ weigh less than a mini marshmallow

By Margherita Bassi

a baby skunk with its paws on a white plate

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

By Margherita Bassi

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

Baby seal gets a swimming lesson

By Margherita Bassi

Weighing an octopus starts with a laundry basket

By Margherita Bassi

pigeon wearing a camera and backpack

Why researchers gave pigeons tiny backpacks

By Margherita Bassi

text on background

60% of medieval knight tales lost to time

By Margherita Bassi

an adult tiger lays down with three cubs

Three tiger cubs born in Kansas

By Margherita Bassi

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

Dwarf mongooses don’t just wait for danger

By Margherita Bassi

a vet examines a lion on a surgery table

Lion undergoes double cataract surgery

By Margherita Bassi

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

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.

AI makes Pompeii victim’s final moments look shockingly real

By Margherita Bassi

a black and white photograph of two skeletons in a grave

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

Jumping spiders inspire wildly efficient 3D camera

By Margherita Bassi

a small wild dog in a forest

Mysterious Amazonian ‘ghost dog’ caught on camera

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

a silhouetted man walks by a blazing sun

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.

Hidden Nazi symbols discovered in famous German artist’s painting

By Margherita Bassi

a small wild cat playing with a ball of catnip

Even wild desert cats love catnip

By Margherita Bassi

a woman in a boat holds a very large fish

Sturgeon sex creates thundering noise in New York

By Margherita Bassi

a brown tick on a blade of grass

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

Orphaned baby turkeys think a feather duster is their mom

By Margherita Bassi

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