Animals

The wild denizens that share our planet, including videos, photo essays, and news on recently discovered—or increasingly rare—species.

Latest in Animals

Adélie penguins walking along the Antarctic coastline.
Environment

How pungent poop could help Antarctica’s penguins

By Laura Baisas

a dog with wide eyes and ears perked up is kissed by two humans
Environment

Dogs can fulfill our need to nurture

By Laura Baisas

Man holding woolly rat out for camera
Environment

Elusive woolly rat photographed for the first time

By Andrew Paul

a pink and yellow flower with delicate petals
Environment

Plants can hear tiny wing flaps of pollinators

By Laura Baisas

a clear marine worm with many appendages branching out of its torso and some dots of colors
Environment

Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating

By Laura Baisas

Sargassum algae piles up along the shore at a beach in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Environment

31 million tons of seaweed ready to stink up Florida’s beaches

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale calf swims in front of its mother
Environment

Humpback whales can give birth while migrating thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

a baby howler monkey on the back of a juvenile capuchin
Environment

Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists

By Lauren Leffer

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

Why a ‘donut’ can help injured birds

By Margherita Bassi

Blue jay on city sidewalk.
Environment

What to do if you find a baby bird out of its nest

By RJ Mackenzie

a black and white snake with two heads
Environment

Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving

By Margherita Bassi

thousands of birds take to the sky
Environment

Weather radar picks up over 1 million migrating birds

By Margherita Bassi

four puffins with white and black plumage and bright orange bills stand on a rock overlooking the north sea
Environment

Puffin-counting season begins with two new livestreams

By Laura Baisas

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, under UV light to expose soft tissues.
Science

Feathered fossil shows famed dinosaur could fly (like a chicken)

By Andrew Paul

a split image of two newly discovered poison dart frogs. the one on the left has yellow legs with brown spots and green-ish stripes. the frog on the right has a brown body with light blue stripes
Environment

It’s raining tiny toxic frogs

By Lauren Leffer

An illustration of what the Amniote (early reptile) would look like from 350 million years ago.
Environment

Amateur paleontologists uncover earliest known ‘reptile’ footprints

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct arthropod, with three large black eyes, antennae, and 16 body segments
Environment

Ancient three-eyed ‘sea moth’ used its butt to breathe

By Laura Baisas

A dog on stuffed stairs and a cat in an automatic litter box for Amazon Pet Day
Gear

The best Amazon Pet Day deals on food, supplements, toys, beds, and everything else for your dog or cat

By Stan Horaczek

two eaglets with black feathers sitting in nest
Environment

Bittersweet fledge watch begins for bald eagles Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pink flamingo feeding in a shallow pool. a swirling vortex of water is near its beak
Environment

Flamingos conjure ‘water tornadoes’ to trap their prey

By Laura Baisas