More from Margherita Bassi (Page 5)

A black-and-white tegu lizard at Iguazu Falls, the waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border between Brazil and Argentina.

Summer 2025’s hottest stars were escaped lizards

By Margherita Bassi

a mule with a brown coat runs in a pen with other mules

Meet the chonky, hard-working mules of Olympic National Park

By Margherita Bassi

two small brown rodents called prairie voles

Love hormone could be key to friendship

By Margherita Bassi

three ants working together

Ants are better at teamwork than humans

By Margherita Bassi

A nestling bald eagle in Arizona.

Bald eagles stun scientists with bizarre migration pattern

By Margherita Bassi

a raccoon with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head

Young raccoon saved from a sticky situation

By Margherita Bassi

a long, cylindrical blue-green mollusck sits on a rock under the ocean

Unsuspecting sea creature has Earth’s hardest teeth

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a groundhog on the grass

Three orphaned groundhogs released back into the wild

By Margherita Bassi

an injured owl with wide eyes

Throwing food out of your car can kill owls

By Margherita Bassi

a man kneels down by a tranquilized rhino and applies a substance to its horn

Endangered Species

How to stop rhino poaching: make their horns radioactive

By Margherita Bassi

a hammerhead shark swimming in blue water

Hammerhead sharks eat other sharks—and it’s worth the risk

By Margherita Bassi

a purple crab stands on green moss in thailand

Rare purple crabs spotted in Thailand

By Margherita Bassi

a painting with cool pastel colors and with visible snake scales

This painting uses leather from an invasive Burmese python

By Margherita Bassi

Marsh Rabbit, Sylvilagus floridanus. Dark brown, small-footed rabbit found in wetlands from SE Virginia to Florida. Green Cay Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida.

Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight invasive pythons

By Margherita Bassi

woman holding shark upside down next to a boat

How to operate on a shark in 10 minutes or less

By Margherita Bassi

birds everywhere near the road

Riding a bike through the world’s largest albatross colony

By Margherita Bassi

Why ancient people depicted elks as wolfish monsters

By Margherita Bassi

a beaver swimming in water. its eyes, nose, ears, and back are exposed

Beavers put to work saving two Utah rivers

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of an ancient mole species. it has long claws, a pink snout, brown fur, and is crawling out of a hole by a lake

Prehistoric ‘scalopini’ mole fossil uncovered in an ancient Spanish volcano crater

By Margherita Bassi

two bears in an enclosure playing with sticks

5 of the most ingenious animal escapes of 2025, so far

By Margherita Bassi

five goats eating vegetation in a park

G.O.A.T. will be crowned in first-ever professional eating competition for goats

By Margherita Bassi

a leopard in a forest in myanmar

Endangered Species

Elusive and critically endangered leopard caught on camera

By Margherita Bassi

An artistic reconstruction of Swaindelphys. it has black fur, pointy pink ears, and pointy nose, and very large brown eyes

Shockingly large extinct possum uncovered in Texas

By Margherita Bassi

several baby turtles all crowded together

3,427 trafficked baby turtles rescued in Mexico

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a sedated black bear undergoing an examination by a team of vets. the bear's mouth open, showing his teeth

This is how you give a bear a check-up

By Margherita Bassi

small fish in a net being rescued

Endangered Species

After a devastating wildfire, rescued fish make a triumphant return to Malibu

By Margherita Bassi

Koala female with her baby at the Perth Zoo in Australia.

Endangered Species

Secret koala population discovered near Australian city

By Margherita Bassi

a weedy seadragon swimming. they have long snouts and raised backs

Weedy seadragons in the running for nature’s best dads

By Margherita Bassi

a baby skunk is held by a person wearing blue latex gloves

Rescued baby skunks enjoy a good song

By Margherita Bassi

a male river otter standing on snow

Escaped river otter takes his destiny into his own (tiny) hands

By Margherita Bassi

fuzzy, orange-ish rodent in a person gloved hand

A baby porcupine is fluffier than you’d imagine

By Margherita Bassi

Side view of a two-seat, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter fighter plane on an airfield during World War I, mid to late 1910s. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight.

By Margherita Bassi

a violinist poses with his violin next to a pond with turtles

Turtles gather for sweet sounds of violinist

By Margherita Bassi

white fava beans

Why fava beans taste gross (and how scientists want to fix them)

By Margherita Bassi

Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San Diego, California.

108-year-old submarine wreck seen in stunning detail in new footage

By Margherita Bassi

a turtle with a large hole in its shell

Turtle’s mysterious injury caused by a golf ball

By Margherita Bassi

a large American bullfrog in water with vegetation

This invasive frog can fit baby turtles inside its mouth

By Margherita Bassi

two birds with black and white plumage with dots of yellow or blue feathers neat their beaks sit near a nest

Male hornbills are at their mates’ every beck and call

By Margherita Bassi

a bird sits in several paper towels forming a circular donut-shaped nest

Why a ‘donut’ can help injured birds

By Margherita Bassi

a black and white snake with two heads

Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving

By Margherita Bassi

thousands of birds take to the sky

Weather radar picks up over 1 million migrating birds

By Margherita Bassi

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