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a penguin looks at the camera while swimming in icy waters
Environment

14 soaring and stunning images from 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Young Cuckoo, Canorus cuculus, in Reed Warblers nest in reedbed, Norfolk UK.
Environment

Are you my baby? The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds

By Sofia Quaglia / Knowable Magazine

Side by side of nature camera and brown bear
Environment

How the Fat Bear Week crew gets that beautiful bear footage

By Andrew Paul

the profile view of a gecko with white scales, bright orange spots, and a large yellow eye
Environment

Geckos have a ‘sixth sense’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground
Environment

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a grayish brown wombat walking next to shrubs
Environment

Can wombats kill with their butts? We found the hard truth.

By Laura Baisas

a microscope image of a small crustacean with a round body, two large antennae come from its head, and several small legs
Environment

Sorry, zooplankton don’t want to eat your poop

By Laura Baisas

Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat's malleable wings.
Technology

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

By Mack DeGeurin

Montana Mountain King sheep
Environment

Montana breeder of illegal, giant sheep hybrid clones gets 6 months in prison

By Andrew Paul

Group of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on haulout, Vaygach island, Barents sea
Science

Walrus DNA suggests meetings between Vikings and Indigenous Inuit

By Andrew Paul

the moment a jaguar delivers a fatal bite to the head of a caiman in a muddy river. 
Environment

11 unforgettable scenes from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Two Fingered Sloth close-up
Environment

Sloths may be in danger by the end of the century

By Andrew Paul

a condor, a large bird with black plumage, stands near a creek
Environment

4 endangered California condors will be released into the wild

By Laura Baisas

Group of Snow Geese in elegant flight against blue sky at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge in New Mexico in winter.
Environment

Why do birds migrate? Scientists have a few major theories.

By Lauren Leffer

a sea robin fish with wide pectoral fins and six crab-like legs
Environment

This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues

By Laura Baisas

a platypus floating in a creek on the Eungella National Park , Queensland, Australia
Technology

Platypus-like robot skin inspired by scientist’s daughter

By Andrew Paul

a CT scan of two jaw fossils from early mammals
Environment

A 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint shifts evolutionary timeline

By Laura Baisas

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins
Environment

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

three species of crane stand in tall grass. the first has grey, black and white plumage and is the tallest. the second has mostly white plumage. the last one is small with gray plumage.
Environment

Cranes can migrate 4,000 miles, but that’s not the hard part

By Laura Baisas

dark and finger-like fungi arise from under a piece of wood
Science

Is this the creepiest fungus in the forest? Yes, definitely.

By Laura Baisas