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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING -AUGUST 7: Visitors walk the boardwalk as White Dome geyser erupts. The 12-foot-high geyserite cone is one of the largest in the park and has eruptions as tall as 30 feet on August 7, 2024 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/Getty Images)

How Yellowstone builds boardwalks beside piping hot thermal pools

a small brown rodent standing on dirt

The cute, tiny Texas kangaroo rat needs help

By Sara Hashemi

a baby penguin chick with fuzzy gray feathers sits on a pink towel

New ‘desert’ penguin chick arrives in Seattle

By Margherita Bassi

A vintage photograph of a man in a large coat and walking stick in a rocky landscape.

In the 1890s, the U.S. hired a team of globe-trotting plant hunters

By Amy Crawford

a small shore bird with white, grey, and black feathers with orange legs and an orange beak

Piping plover beats the odds after losing feet in fishing line

By Laura Baisas

a sub adult eagle sitting on a nest

Outside eagle spotted on Jackie and Shadow’s nest

By Laura Baisas

NEIJIANG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 30: A worker transfers PVC pipes at a factory of Sichuan Hongyu Hengchuang Plastic Products Co., Ltd. on November 30, 2022 in Neijiang, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Lan Zitao/VCG via Getty Images)

Hard-to-recycle PVC turned into sustainable lubricant

Conservationist holding large Burmese python by the tail in Florida Everglades

280 snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge

Python incentives and education specialist, Robert Edman, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, demonstrates how to catch a python during an event promoting the Florida Python Challenge 2020 Python Bowl on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The python challenge is a conservation effort that includes public outreach on the invasive pythons and a ten day competition to remove pythons from the Florida Everglades. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS)

Florida Python Challenge winner slayed 96 snakes

two eagles perched on a tree branch

Bald eaglets Sandy and Luna leave Big Bear Valley, Shadow gets a little vacation

By Laura Baisas

a puma crossing the road

Pumas can help prevent car crashes

By Margherita Bassi

a sea turtle wearing a satellite tag on its shell walks back into the ocean

Rescued sea turtle named Pancake swims to hot hangout for young turtles

By Laura Baisas

A man in a silver hazmat suit stands in front of a sign.

During WWII, Great Britain poisoned sheep with anthrax on an idyllic Scottish island

By RJ Mackenzie

Megalodon tooth with layers of polymetallic deposits atop a NOAA Ocean Exploration towel

Massive, metal-encrusted megalodon teeth litter deep ocean floor

NEGOTIN, SERBIA - SEPTEMBER 13: A view of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has resurfaced in Serbia's Danube River near the eastern village of Prahovo in the Negotin region due to receding water levels caused by recent extreme heat. The vessel is believed to be part of Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet, which was abandoned by retreating German forces in 1944 as the Soviet army advanced. (Photo by Amir Hamzagic/Anadolu via Getty Images)

German WWII shipwrecks resurface in Danube River

This carnivorous sponge was one of several seen during Dive 09 of the 2026 Cook Islands ROV Exploration cruise. Unlike fitler feeding sponges, carnivorous sponges prey on animals such as small crustaceans that they capture from the water column.

How to watch a live deep-sea exploration in the Pacific

TAKEHARA, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 24: Rabbits look for food at the beach on Okunoshima Island on February 24, 2014 in Takehara, Japan. Okunoshima is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima Prefecture. The Island often called Usagi Jima or "Rabbit Island" is famous for it's rabbit population that has taken over the island and become a tourist attraction with many people coming to the feed the animals and enjoy the islands tourist facilities which include a resort, six hole golf course and camping grounds. During World War II the island was used as a poison gas facility. From 1929 to 1945, the Japanese Army produced five types of poison gas on Okunoshima Island. The island was so secret that local residents were told to keep away and it was removed from area maps. Today ruins of the old forts and chemical factories can be found all across the island. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Wild boars develop taste for beloved rabbits on popular island in Japan

a red spiky flower growing in a swamp

5 gnarly plants in the Okefenokee Swamp, from digestive slime to Earth’s fastest predator

By Laura Baisas

a grey sponge on the floor of a harbor

Blobby chicken kidney sponges clean dirty water surprisingly well

By Laura Baisas

a hammerhead shark underwater, at the side of a boat

Mysterious shark spotted near the Galápagos Islands for the first time in over 20 years

By Laura Baisas

Twin black-and-white ruffed lemurs, Maso and Tonga, explore their habitat at Central Park Zoo with their mother, Koa.

Rare twin lemurs born at New York’s Central Park Zoo

By Laura Baisas

In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency on June 18, 2026, vessels are seen anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices tumbled after Trump and his Iranian counterpart separately signed their accord to end the Middle East war, with the Strait of Hormuz to reopen but two months of negotiations lying ahead. (Photo by AMIRHOSSEIN KHORGOOEI / ISNA / AFP) /

Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare

Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screw worm fly, or screw-worm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue.

Smell of death could help trap invasive, cow-killing screwworms

a turtle wearing a telemetry device on its shell walks into the ocean

Bon voyage, Papyrus! 5 rescued sea turtles named after fonts released in Cape Cod

By Laura Baisas

two bald eagles and their chicks

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow raise $10 million to save habitat

By Popular Science Team

two young eagles with dark feathers stand on a tree limb

Why Jackie and Shadow’s home is the place to be for young eagles

By Laura Baisas

a sea turtle crawls towards the ocean while a crowd watches

Pancake the rescued sea turtle released on Coney Island beach

By Laura Baisas

three eagles standing on a nest

Luna the eagle chases off nest intruder, as mom Jackie recovers

By Laura Baisas

avocados growing on a tree

Humans packed avocados before migrating across the Americas 5,000 years ago

By Laura Baisas

a sperm whale swimming in clear blue waters with its mouth open

Sperm whales change how they communicate when ships are nearby

By Laura Baisas

Demon cavefish photo from scientific study

New eyeless ‘demon cavefish’ discovered in Alabama named after mythological Demogorgon

a woman wearing a costume to look like an adult crane feeds a baby crane

Costumed ‘Ugly Mom’ helps orphaned sandhill cranes

By Laura Baisas

Deep sea mesophotic coral seen off coast of Benin

‘Dead’ coral reef found alive and thriving off West Africa

a baby skunk with its paws on a white plate

Found a baby skunk? Please don’t feed it.

By Margherita Bassi

Miami, UNITED STATES: A 12-foot (3.65m) Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home slithers on the ground at its new home at the A.D. Barnes Park 10 October 2005, in south Miami, FL. The snake was captured 09 October and is the prime suspect in the disappearance of a 15-pound (6.8kg) cat that lived at the residence. AFP PHOTO/Robert SULLIVAN (Photo credit should read ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida man will trade pizza for pythons

a large spotted fish called a whale shark swims with its mouth open

Massive whale shark just spotted in Florida

By Laura Baisas

a baby beluga whale with gray skin swims with two adult whales with white skin

Beluga whale live cam launches. YAY!

By Laura Baisas

MADRID, SPAIN - 2023/04/14: A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia), also known as aoudad, pictured in its enclosure at Madrid Zoo. (Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Invasive sheep brought to US after WWII are making Texas bighorns sick

a mother seal gives a baby seal a swimming lesson underneath ice

Baby seal gets a swimming lesson

By Margherita Bassi

Wildlife officer holding large outstretched Burmese python in Florida

Snake hunters gather in Florida to kill invasive pythons for $25,000 in prizes

Manila clam shells on beach sand

Invasive (but delicious) clams discovered in Cape Cod

purple bones from a sea otter in a tide pool

Sea otter bones can turn purple

By Laura Baisas

an underwater robot scans a red fish

31 alien-like marine species discovered off the coast of Brazil

By Sara Hashemi

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 25, 2019. - Along with the venomous lionfish, the Burmese python is perhaps the least welcome invasive species in Florida: lacking any natural predators, it has happily chomped its way through the state's wildlife. Native to Southeast Asia, the Burmese pythons have become a plague in Florida. (Photo by RHONA WISE / AFP) (Photo by RHONA WISE/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida readies to battle invasive pythons with a new video PSA

Collage showing a red submersible partly underwater.

Before the moon race, explorers wanted to conquer the ocean

By Bill Gourgey

a parrot with an orange beak, red eye, and blue, yellow, green, and orange feathers

Colorful songbirds face higher risk of extinction

By Laura Baisas

a pangolin walking on grass. the small mammals have long noses, four legs with long claws on their feet, and a long tail

Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammal. A nearly 200-year-old specimen could help.

By Laura Baisas

Exterior photograph of DEEP's Vanguard underwater installation surrounded by fish in the Florida Keys

Underwater research lab installed in the Florida Keys

several beetle and butterfly species on a blue background

New estimate: Earth has 14 to 20 million insect species

By Laura Baisas

Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in 1898.

The glasses case that saved Teddy Roosevelt’s life go on display in North Dakota

By Laura Baisas

a baby clouded leopard cub laying with its mother. the leopards have grey-ish and goledn fur with black spots

New clouded leopard cub is the size of a loaf of bread

By Sara Hashemi

a bat covered in yellow powder

Bats covered in pollen make tequila possible

By Laura Baisas

Close up of python draped over man's shoulder in the Everglades

8,000 pounds of invasive Burmese python removed from the Florida Everglades

a humpback whale breaches in the arabian sea with desert hills in the distance

For the first time, biologists observe a humpback whale crossing the Arabian Sea

By Laura Baisas

a whale swims at the surface of the water

Young humpback whale freed from fishing line near Cape Cod

By Laura Baisas

a pregnant male sea horse

Florida students watch male seahorse give birth in the wild

By Laura Baisas

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