Wildlife

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Goose flying behind wind turbine
Bats

Birds avoid wind turbines painted like venomous snakes

By Andrew Paul

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

Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef

By Andrew Paul

Spread wings of a wild crested caracara in South Texas USA
Birds

There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants

By Stephen Brusatte / The Conversation

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

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

By Laura Kiniry

two bald eagle chicks
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets can now see like their parents

By Popular Science Team

a baby elephant walking under an adult
Endangered Species

Meet Sam Houston, the new baby Asian elephant

By Margherita Bassi

a leopard cub in a sugarcane field
Wildlife

Leopard moms hide babies in sugarcane fields to go hunting

By Margherita Bassi

two mayflies mating
Wildlife

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

By Margherita Bassi

a white bison calf walking next to an adult bison in tall prairie grass
Wildlife

One-in-a-million white bison calf born in Iowa

By Laura Baisas

a team of vets puts a wire frame on a turtle's shell
Wildlife

Vet constructs ingenious contraption to help a tortoise hit by a car

By Margherita Bassi

a wasp's head
Wildlife

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

By Margherita Bassi

Close up of magic mushrooms in the palm of someone's hand
Fish

Magic mushrooms make mean fish lazier and more chill

By Andrew Paul

Close up of oyster shells
Wildlife

Want stronger concrete? Just add oysters.

By Andrew Paul

Photo of the Pope Leo moth with dark orange wings broken up by white bands
Wildlife

New moth species named for Pope Leo

By Andrew Paul

Purple martin in flight
Birds

370 million birds will migrate tonight

By Andrew Paul

Close up of speartooth shark
Endangered Species

Shark lasers could help save vulnerable species

By Andrew Paul

two eaglet chicks in a nest
Birds

How to tell Jackie and Shadow’s chicks, Sandy and Luna, apart

By Laura Baisas

a toucan with a colorful green, orange, and red beak and yellow and black feathers
Birds

14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab

By Margherita Bassi

a whale breaching with a bridge in view
Whales

‘Save Willy Act’ introduced in California to help save whales in Bay Area

By Margherita Bassi

a grizzly bear in the woods
Bears

CAUTION: That dead elk in Yellowstone could be grizzly bear bait

By Margherita Bassi