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a horseshoe crab at the water's edge glows blue under UV light

8 captivating photos of Delaware Bay’s annual horseshoe crab spawn

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

Global map showing density distribution of fungi networks

621 trillion miles of fungi networks crisscross the planet

two bald eagles standing in a nest above a lake looking straight at a camera

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow need $10 million

By Laura Baisas

The Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae), also known as the Argentine giant tegu, the black and white tegu

Georgia is battling invasive, 4-foot-long lizards

a river system with orange colored water

The mystery of Alaska’s orange rivers is finally solved

By Laura Baisas

a man on a boat holds a large silver fish

50 million pounds of invasive fish removed from Illinois River

By Laura Baisas

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

Happy laughing little girl slides down on a pink water slide in outdoor swimming pool on a hot summer day. She's wearing goggles and a orange bikini.

What’s the safest swimsuit color? Skip blue and black.

By Nidhi Sharma

a woman sits in a high-tech rowboat in the ocean

Kelsey Pfendler is trying to become the youngest woman to row solo from California to Hawaii

By Mack DeGeurin

middle age old woman sit at sofa home feel hot flash fever use fan waving

Fans don’t cool rooms and 3 other myths about home energy conservation

a rainbow over a hot spring

10 must-know tips for visiting Yellowstone National Park

By Laura Baisas

Burmese Python in the Everglades

Ready to hunt some enormous snakes? The Florida Python Challenge returns.

spiders with happy faces

Newly discovered spider has smiley face on its back

a robot scouring a reef

It’s a barracuda! It’s a shrimp! It’s a robot helping coral reefs.

By Mack DeGeurin

a superbloom of tall purple wildflowers called lupine with mountains in the distance

Superbloom turns Redwood National Park’s hills purple

By Laura Baisas

Chikao Umezawa, head of JA Kisarazu-shi, posed for a photo beside a robot named "Super Monster Wolf", a solar powered robot designed to scare away wildlife from farmers crops in Kisarazu, southwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan on August 10, 2017. Wolf Bot uses an infrared ray sensor when wild animals approach. It begins to intimidate wild animals by flashing red LED lights from its eyes on and off and blaring 48 repeated different types of loud sounds. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NUR Photo) (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

Goose flying behind wind turbine

Birds avoid wind turbines painted like venomous snakes

hairy ghost pipefish Solenostomus snuffleupagus, which looks like Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street

Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef

Young white boy in grey pullover holds a robot turtle posing in front of a small pond.

Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

By Laura Kiniry

Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday present is… a parasitic wasp

By Margherita Bassi