Wildlife(Page 11)

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

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a marine biologist and an actor fist bump while sitting on a dive boat in the ocean
Wildlife

Actor Anthony Mackie and marine biologist Jasmin Graham talk sharks

By Laura Baisas

Shark Embryos
Sharks

Scientists built an artificial shark uterus

By Claudia Geib / Hakai Magazine

Green and gold bell frogs in artificial hotspot shelter.
Wildlife

Frog saunas could help the amphibians cope with a deadly fungus

By Lauren Leffer

a blue lobster in an aquarium tank
Wildlife

Why blue animals are so rare in nature

By Laura Baisas

a large lizard with yellow spots in the dirt
Endangered Species

Giant lizards could keep flesh-eating maggots off Australia’s sheep

By Laura Baisas

A Barred Owl hangs upside down from a thin tree branch, its body horizontal, its face turned and looking at the camera. Above it hangs a squirrel on a branch. Its head is nearly completely severed and is held in the owl’s talons. Its fur is bloodied.
Birds

Mating, murder, and parenting: The complex lives of birds on display in 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

wombat
Wildlife

Inside the secret lives of wombats

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

an illustration of three long-necked and marine reptiles swimming with four paddle shaped limbs in an ancient sea
Wildlife

This giant polar reptile once stalked an ancient super-ocean

By Laura Baisas

Katie Tyson, 18, first runner up for the Miss Snake Charmer pageant poses for a portrait in a snake pit during the 2021 Rattlesnake Roundup at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater, Texas on March 13, 2021. - The town of Sweetwater holds the largest rattlesnake roundup in the world, launched in 1958 with the sole purpose of getting rid of rattlesnakes, killing an average of 5,000 pounds of snake each year. (Photo by PAUL RATJE / AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)
Wildlife

Despite criticism, the last of the rattlesnake roundups hang on

By Ted Willians / Yale Environment 360

Hammerhead shark
Sharks

A scientific mission to save the sharks

By Angela Posada-Swafford / Knowable Magazine

a long and lean sei whale swimming in the ocean
Whales

Dozens of rare, endangered whales spotted off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard

By Laura Baisas

Brooding squid
Wildlife

Incredible footage shows new squid species tending to enormous eggs

By Andrew Paul

a black widow spider on a leaf. the spider is black with a red marking on its abdomen.
Wildlife

New experimental black widow venom antidote uses human antibodies

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile dolphin lifts its head out of the water
Wildlife

Young dolphins mimic sex as part of play

By Laura Baisas

two juvenile elephants greet each other near a watering hole. their trunks are interlocked.
Wildlife

African elephants use name-like calls to address each other

By Laura Baisas

A colorful adult female Joro spider. These arachnids are native to parts of Southeast Asia.
Spiders

No, ‘flying’ venomous spiders are not coming for you this summer

By Laura Baisas

a school of yellow and white swim near a reef
Fish

Fish swimming together fare better in turbulent waters

By Laura Baisas

a tiger shark swimming in the ocean (left). a small spiky mammal with a pointy nose canned an echidna (right) on land
Sharks

Unlucky shark vomits up hedgehog-like animal, shocks scientists

By Laura Baisas

oysters plate
Wildlife

Climate change is coming for your oysters

By Devon Fredericksen / Hakai Magazine

a large bird with blue plummage and orange eyes called a cassowary
Birds

The world’s most dangerous bird is at risk of extinction

By Laura Baisas

OceanXplorers sub
Wildlife

Watch the exclusive trailer premiere for James Cameron’s new ‘OceanXplorers’ series

By Andrew Paul

Zebrafish
Fish

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
Birds

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

By Laura Baisas

a snake spits venom out of its mouth
Wildlife

Snake venom’s deadly secrets decoded with fake blood vessels

By Laura Baisas

Common cuttlefish
Fish

Cuttlefish tentacles and origami inspired a new robotic claw

By Andrew Paul

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

Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback

By Laura Baisas

Orcas only need one breath between dives
Wildlife

Orcas only need one breath between dives

By Laura Baisas

a brown snail sits on a green lettuce leaf
Wildlife

Slimy slugs and snails surprisingly thriving in LA

By Laura Baisas

an otter eating while floating on its back
Wildlife

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
Wildlife

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)
Birds

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
Wildlife

Orangutans’ distinct yells decoded with help from AI

By Laura Baisas

two mantis shrimp punching one another
Wildlife

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.
Wildlife

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
Birds

Why these parrots sometimes kill each other’s chicks

By Laura Baisas

Snail robots forming a staircase to reach rock ledge
Wildlife

Swarm of tiny snail robots stick together to form new structures

By Andrew Paul

wild green honeykeeper bilateral gynandromorphism
Birds

These birds break the sex binary like it’s nothing

By Popular Science Team

three sperm whales swimming near the surface of the ocean
Whales

Sperm whales may have their own ‘alphabet’

By Laura Baisas

an adult peregrine falcon feeds four chicks
Birds

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
Birds

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

By Andrew Paul

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.
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

close up of tire
Wildlife

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
Wildlife

Early trauma can shorten a red squirrel’s lifespan

By Laura Baisas

a spike-toothed salmon fossil with its mouth open
Fish

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
Birds

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
Wildlife

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
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile shark following an autonomous underwater robot
Sharks

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
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

Close-up photos of ReachBot.
Spiders

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
Wildlife

This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds

By Laura Baisas

a tardigrade floating around
Wildlife

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
Wildlife

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
Birds

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).
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

CT scan of California condor egg
Birds

CT scans look inside a California condor egg

By Andrew Paul

one bonobo yells at another bonobo in a tree
Wildlife

‘Peaceful’ bonobos bite and push each other, actually

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of an octopus eye
Wildlife

Why counting octopus ‘rings’ is crucial

By Laura Baisas