Wildlife(Page 11)

The latest on the fascinating flora and fauna of our planet.

Latest in Wildlife

Why do we send so many fish to space?

By Briley Lewis

an american flamingo. the bird has pink and white plumage with a black beak

A ‘pink wave’ of flamingoes settles into the Sunshine State

By Laura Baisas

a snake spits venom out of its mouth

Snake venom’s deadly secrets decoded with fake blood vessels

By Laura Baisas

Common cuttlefish

Cuttlefish tentacles and origami inspired a new robotic claw

An artistic life reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, the last of the dromornithids, at the water’s edge

Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback

By Laura Baisas

Orcas only need one breath between dives

Orcas only need one breath between dives

By Laura Baisas

a brown snail sits on a green lettuce leaf

Slimy slugs and snails surprisingly thriving in LA

By Laura Baisas

an otter eating while floating on its back

Female sea otters use tools more than males

By Laura Baisas

coral polyps before spawning

Endangered Species

Scientists are studying the mysterious sex lives of coral

By Laura Baisas

a green stick insect blending into a green plant

Chance or pattern? Stick insects show repeatable evolution in action

By Laura Baisas

Carrion crow (Corvus corone) perched on wooden fence post and calling. (Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study

By Lauren Leffer

A proboscis monkey in a mangrove conservation forest in Tarakan, North Borneo, Indonesia. It is light brown in color with a very large, round, droopy, and prominent nose.

Endangered Species

These monkeys have giant noses for exactly the reason you think

By Laura Baisas

an orangutan sits in the forest with its mouth open wide, showing its teeth

Orangutans’ distinct yells decoded with help from AI

By Laura Baisas

two mantis shrimp punching one another

Bullet-fast mantis shrimp punches caught by super-speed cameras

By Laura Baisas

A dog dyed black and white to mimic a panda cub at Cute Pet Games cafe in Chengdu in China's southwestern Sichuan province on October 23, 2019.

Endangered Species

Chinese zoo dyes chow chows to look like ‘panda dogs’

By Laura Baisas

a small, blue fish called the Devils Hole pupfish swims in a hole

Endangered Species

Devils Hole pupfish are clawing their way back from the brink of extinction

By Laura Baisas

A male African elephant named Doma and a female named Kariba greet one another. Doma touches Kariba´s temporal gland while flapping his ears and Kariba holds her ears spread.

Expressive elephants use gestures and vocal cues to communicate

By Laura Baisas

two adult green-rumped parrots with three nestlings behind them with their mouths open waiting for food

Why these parrots sometimes kill each other’s chicks

By Laura Baisas

Snail robots forming a staircase to reach rock ledge

Swarm of tiny snail robots stick together to form new structures

wild green honeykeeper bilateral gynandromorphism

These birds break the sex binary like it’s nothing

By Popular Science Team

three sperm whales swimming near the surface of the ocean

Sperm whales may have their own ‘alphabet’

By Laura Baisas

an adult peregrine falcon feeds four chicks

Watch four Peregrine falcon chicks in a nest on Alcatraz Island

By Laura Baisas

a seagull stands on a post by a large and sparkling body of blue water

Bigger-brained gull species thrive in urban spaces

By Laura Baisas

Close up of orangutan

Endangered Species

Orangutan observed using a plant to treat an open wound

A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California's saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize the growing permanent saber tooth, perhaps allowing adolescents to learn how to hunt without breaking them.

How saber-toothed cats’ baby teeth kept their adult fangs from breaking

By Laura Baisas

close up of tire

Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs

By Jim Robbins / KFF Health News

a small red squirrel with perked up ears sits on a tree branch

Early trauma can shorten a red squirrel’s lifespan

By Laura Baisas

a spike-toothed salmon fossil with its mouth open

This 400-pound prehistoric salmon had tusks like a warthog

By Laura Baisas

These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think

These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think

By Popular Science Team

a bioluminescent coral shaped like a fan with a central hub

Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought

By Laura Baisas

an orange, black, and white lemur sits in a tree

Endangered Species

Critically endangered lemur attacked by vulnerable fosa in Madagascar

By Laura Baisas

a circular lamprey mouth dotted with teeth

Lampreys offer clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile shark following an autonomous underwater robot

Baby sharks stick to the shallows

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large marine reptile beached on the sand, surrounded by two two-legged dinosaurs and several flying dinosaurs

New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child

By Laura Baisas

Close-up photos of ReachBot.

Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves

By Mack DeGeurin

an orange and black butterfly lands on a green leaf with purple flowers

This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds

By Laura Baisas

a tardigrade floating around

How super resilient tardigrades can fix their radiation-damaged DNA

By Laura Baisas

an infected periodical cicada with a white fungal plug on its abdomen

This gnarly fungus makes cicadas hypersexual

By Laura Baisas

a toucan with an orange beak and black and white plumage sits in a tree with its mouth open

How fruit-eating birds could help regrow tropical forests

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of southeastern South Australia during the Pleistocene epoch showing various plants and animals that lived there alongside Protemnodon. The almost one-tonne Zygomaturus trilobus in the bottom right. None of the kangaroos shown is a Protemnodon, but there are two short-faced kangaroos in the center-right. One wallaby is also being attacked by a Tasmanian tiger (top left).

Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea

By Laura Baisas

CT scan of California condor egg

CT scans look inside a California condor egg

one bonobo yells at another bonobo in a tree

‘Peaceful’ bonobos bite and push each other, actually

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of an octopus eye

Why counting octopus ‘rings’ is crucial

By Laura Baisas

two white beluga whales at the surface of the water

Toothed whales traded chewing for echolocation to evolve

By Laura Baisas

a transparent marine worm with two large reddish-orange eyes on the top of its head

Tiny worm with enormous eyes may have a ‘secret language’

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a brown-colored frog called Haddadus binotatus

Humans can’t hear these frogs screaming

By Laura Baisas

Close up of shark head

Shark skin and owl feathers could inspire quieter underwater sonar

a small ferrit-like mammal from the jurassic period goes after a winged insect

New fossils of tiny, toothy early mammals could be a major missing link

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile chimpanzee in a forested habitat

Mining of materials needed for ‘green revolution’ puts great ape population at risk

By Laura Baisas

killer whale jumping out of water an orca

The fascinating truth about killer whales

By Craig Welch / Hakai Magazine

Close up of wolf spider resting on web

Spider conversations decoded with the help of machine learning and contact microphones

a flock of flamingoes standing

We were very wrong about birds

By Laura Baisas

a gecko with spots and a brown back

New tiny gecko species named after Vincent van Gogh

By Laura Baisas

a small bird called a chickadee with black, white, and grey feathers stands on a stick

How these feathery ‘memory geniuses’ remember where they stashed their food

By Laura Baisas

a fish robot in an aquarium

Get ready for the robotic fish revolution

By Annie Roth / Hakai Magazine

A songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) perching on a rock in Thailand.

These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’

By Laura Baisas

bat in the dark

Can niche lives of bats help them avoid the white-nose syndrome?

By Trina Moyles / Hakai Magazine

A beetle with black and white fuzz sits on a leaf.

New fluffy longhorn beetle discovered in Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct species of pink river dolphin in murky water

Paleontologists uncover enormous fossilized river dolphin skull in Peru

By Laura Baisas

A smart bird feeder on a plain background arranged in a pattern.

Save 52% off this solar-powered bird feeder camera during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Kermit the Frog strumming the banjo, along with a fossil skull of Kermitops (left) and a modern frog skull (right). Kermitops’ discovery is filling in some major evolutionary gaps for amphibians.

New proto-amphibian species named after Kermit the Frog

By Laura Baisas

a black and white orca whale leaps out of the ocean while hunting a sea lion. another whale is surfacing near by.

How crafty orca whales hunt near submarine canyons

By Laura Baisas

Jackie and Shadow tending to the eggs as snow covers the region on March 7, 2024.

Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the antlers of an irish elk

Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers

By Laura Baisas