More from Margherita Bassi (Page 2)

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

Seed-size sea slug looks like an everything bagel

By Margherita Bassi

a bobcat in an enclosure

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

By Margherita Bassi

a mother big horn sheep with three babies

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

The boat-billed heron looks fake but is very real

By Margherita Bassi

pages from a manuscript

The unexpected science hiding in Dante’s ‘Inferno’

By Margherita Bassi

a beetle with black and red coloring

61 new beetles discovered in China

By Margherita Bassi

a shark swimming in dark waters

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

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

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

Leopard moms hide babies in sugarcane fields to go hunting

By Margherita Bassi

two mayflies mating

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

By Margherita Bassi

a team of vets puts a wire frame on a turtle's shell

Vet constructs ingenious contraption to help a tortoise hit by a car

By Margherita Bassi

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

14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab

By Margherita Bassi

a whale breaching with a bridge in view

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

By Margherita Bassi

a grizzly bear in the woods

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

a spider web on grass

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

Parrots use names to talk to each other

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

Endangered Species

Earth’s largest otters have chocolate bar-sized babies

By Margherita Bassi

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

Two mountain lion cubs rescued from certain death

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of an extinct hedgehog like animal

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

By Margherita Bassi

a bright red bird with a long beak

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

Rare rotting-flesh smelling flower blooming at a Massachusetts college

By Margherita Bassi

a lobster in a pot of boiling water

Yes, your lobster dinner probably died an excruciating death

By Margherita Bassi

tortoise_with_wheels

Injured turtle gets a second chance on four wheels

By Margherita Bassi

adult owl and baby owl

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

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.

6 famous people with animals named in their honor

By Margherita Bassi

a pink orchid with delicate petals

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.

What did Pompeii smell like before it burned?

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a baby chick

Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle

By Margherita Bassi

The talons of an immature bald eagle.

Rescued birds treated to a pedicure—or talon trim

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

a blue whale swimming

Marine biologists spot rare blue whales off Massachusetts coast

By Margherita Bassi

a bird chick sits on a nest

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick

By Margherita Bassi

Scientists suggest modifying cars to hit fewer hedgehogs

By Margherita Bassi

a black bird sits on a tree

These birds listen to their parents to avoid being eaten

By Margherita Bassi

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

a bobcat on a colorful blanket

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

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)

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

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

By Margherita Bassi

a horse standing in a green field with its mouth open

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

Frostbitten lizard found in Rhode Island is healing

By Margherita Bassi

bones laid out in a grave

Stone Age burial ground reveals deep family trees

By Margherita Bassi

A great white shark swims near Guadalupe Island in Mexico.

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

The parrots having human-like conversations

By Margherita Bassi

a tunnel under roman ruins

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

By Margherita Bassi

a hamster asleep in the gloved hand of a scientist

How hibernating hamsters could help astronauts

By Margherita Bassi

the sun hits a waterfall so it looks like fire

Yosemite’s glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again

By Margherita Bassi

white bird poop on a black car

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

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

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

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