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an illustration of an extinct hedgehog like animal

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

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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

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two cheetah cubs

Endangered Species

Two cheetah cubs narrowly escape the illegal pet trade

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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

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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?

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a close up of a baby chick

Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle

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The talons of an immature bald eagle.

Rescued birds treated to a pedicure—or talon trim

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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

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a blue whale swimming

Marine biologists spot rare blue whales off Massachusetts coast

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a bird chick sits on a nest

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick

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Scientists suggest modifying cars to hit fewer hedgehogs

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a black bird sits on a tree

These birds listen to their parents to avoid being eaten

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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

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a white rat and a black rat looking out of a cage

163 surrendered rats seek new homes in Massachusetts

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a pink flamingo standing in water (left). a blue songbird sitting on a tree branch (right)

Florida considers making the flamingo its state bird

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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

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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

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a tunnel under roman ruins

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

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a hamster asleep in the gloved hand of a scientist

How hibernating hamsters could help astronauts

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the sun hits a waterfall so it looks like fire

Yosemite’s glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again

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white bird poop on a black car

Bird poop powered this pre-Hispanic kingdom

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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

a green caterpillar on a plant's stem

Caterpillars use tiny hairs to hear

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a large dark millipede

These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida

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a shark with brownish yellow scales and spots curled up among coral

‘Walking sharks’ lay eggs without breaking a sweat

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a jellyfish with a red center, blue circle on the outer part of its body, and small tentavles

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.

Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size

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Three harvest mice playing around and entwining their tails together to stop them from falling.

Female mice often have multiple sexual partners—for survival

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a young chimpanzee hanging upside down in a tree

Baby chimpanzees like to free fall through trees

By Margherita Bassi

a bird with long legs and colorful feathers

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

Ornate medieval ring discovered in Norway’s oldest town

By Margherita Bassi

a mother whale and calf

2026 is off to a hopeful start for these critically endangered whales

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a small cat walking on leaves

Endangered Species

Tiny wild cat spotted in Thailand for first time in 30 years

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a butterfly with blue wings with black spots

Endangered Species

9 new butterflies discovered in old museum archives

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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

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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

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An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor.

What octopus camouflage has to do with sunscreen

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AI created video of bunnies on a trampoline

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

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