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a woman in a blue baseball cap holds a turtle on the beach

Rare hybrid sea turtle released back into the ocean after rescue

By Margherita Bassi

a pigeon with grey, green, black, and purple feathers

Pigeons use their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field

By Margherita Bassi

a mosquito biting human skin

Mosquitoes can learn that DEET means dinner is served

By Laura Baisas

a small horse galloping

Rare Przewalski’s horse born in New York

By Margherita Bassi

two human doctors holding a baby gorilla

Doctors perform rare emergency C-section on a gorilla

By Margherita Bassi

a long and cylindrical orange mushroom growing out of the ground. it has a brown cap that is used to spread spores

This phallic fungus also smells like rotting flesh

By Laura Baisas

a sleeping baby gorilla

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

Mature woman suffering from hot flashes using hand fan, cooling down at home.

What happens inside your body during a hot flash

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

a bobcat in an enclosure

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

By Margherita Bassi

a small bird chick with white feathers yawns

6 bird cam highlights to celebrate nesting season

By Laura Baisas

Small blue octopus on ocean floor

Golf ball-sized octopus discovered near the Galápagos Islands

a mother big horn sheep with three babies

It’s baby season at Yellowstone National Park

By Margherita Bassi

Two views of new box jellyfish species with 5 cm size comparison reference

New box jellyfish name warns of ‘death from behind’

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

a black and white cow standing on green grass in an open field

Cows can tell humans apart, new study finds

By Laura Baisas

3D render illustration of T. rext and various other dinosaurs in a forest

Why were T. rex’s arms so tiny? Paleontologists finally find an answer.

spiders with happy faces

Newly discovered spider has smiley face on its back

a close-up of a black and yellow bumblebee landing on the yellow center of an orange flower

Worker bees have power to pick their queen

By Laura Baisas

Drill boring hole in ancient mollusk shell in laboratory

Neanderthals dined on shellfish much earlier than humans