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Two little blue penguins at a nest in Timaru, New Zealand.
Environment

When penguins divorce, the whole colony is impacted

By Laura Baisas

The great green bush-cricket.
Environment

Parasitic crickets have a few moves to outsmart ants

By Laura Baisas

cobra snake closeup
Technology

Scientists use AI to create completely new anti-venom proteins

By Lauren Leffer

Two feral dogs walking near abandoned Ferris wheel in Chernobyl
Science

Chernobyl’s feral dogs are genetically unique, but not mutated

By Andrew Paul

a close up of an isopod with antenne and a segmented body
Environment

New foot-long crustacean named after Darth Vader

By Laura Baisas

a blue lobster-looking animal called a crayfish. it has long claws, antennae, and a segmented body
Environment

New colorful species of crayfish discovered in aquarium shipment

By Laura Baisas

a small bird sits in a tree with its beak open wide
Environment

Why do birds make so many different sounds? 100,000 audio recordings offer clues.

By Laura Baisas

a green glow of bioluminescence from a mushroom
Environment

Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest

By Laura Baisas

Three red ants interacting with one another
Science

Even ants may hold grudges

By Andrew Paul

a small brown fish swimming in a tank
Environment

These fish can mate 19 times per day

By Laura Baisas

a long whale shark with gray spots swims in the ocean
Environment

Whale shark pre-mating ritual observed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and black plummage and an egg on a nest and three other birds standing around her
Environment

Which animals reproduce at the oldest age?

By Laura Baisas

a woman nuzzles a dog
Science

Meet the former musher investigating sled dog genetics

By Laura Baisas

a dark brown moray eel
Environment

New ‘Hades’ moray eel discovered by accident

By Laura Baisas

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.
Environment

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

By Laura Baisas

a svalbard reindeer with antlers standing on muddy terrain
Environment

Shorter, fatter, and hairier: 5 fun facts about the world’s smallest reindeer

By Laura Baisas

a strange fish with a blob on its head sits on a rock
Environment

27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest

By Laura Baisas

A Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) photographed on Sombrero Island in June 2021. This species is endemic to the Carribbean island.
Environment

Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 16X in only six years

By Laura Baisas

An Andean bear at the nature reserve Bioparque Wakata, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia, on June 21, 2023.
Environment

Shy ‘Paddington’ bears need more plants to survive

By Laura Baisas

a squirrel sits eating a vole, pulling its meat with its teeth
Environment

‘Shocking:’ These squirrels are hunting and eating other rodents

By Laura Baisas