Wildlife(Page 12)

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

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two white beluga whales at the surface of the water
Whales

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
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

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

Humans can’t hear these frogs screaming

By Laura Baisas

Close up of shark head
Birds

Shark skin and owl feathers could inspire quieter underwater sonar

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile chimpanzee in a forested habitat
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

killer whale jumping out of water an orca
Whales

The fascinating truth about killer whales

By Craig Welch / Hakai Magazine

Close up of wolf spider resting on web
Wildlife

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

By Andrew Paul

a flock of flamingoes standing
Birds

We were very wrong about birds

By Laura Baisas

a gecko with spots and a brown back
Wildlife

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
Birds

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

By Laura Baisas

a fish robot in an aquarium
Fish

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.
Birds

These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’

By Laura Baisas

bat in the dark
Bats

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.
Wildlife

New fluffy longhorn beetle discovered in Australia

By Laura Baisas

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

Paleontologists uncover enormous fossilized river dolphin skull in Peru

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Amanda Reed

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.
Wildlife

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.
Whales

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.
Birds

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

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the antlers of an irish elk
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

several small and translucent glass eels on a yellow cloth
Wildlife

How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’

By Laura Baisas

a human wears a fox mask while feeding a baby fox in its care
Wildlife

Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit

By Laura Baisas

Group of Marco Polo Sheep on a snowy mountainside.
Wildlife

Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting

By Andrew Paul

a group of black and white ring-tailed lemurs sitting in green trees.
Wildlife

Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of cyborg jellyfish with forebody attachments
Wildlife

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

By Andrew Paul

A potentially new squid species found off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Wildlife

New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

a deep sea worm with feathery appendages
Wildlife

Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’

By Laura Baisas

A silver gar fish with a long snout.
Fish

Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’

By Laura Baisas

An orca whale hunts a great white shark. Blood is seen near the orca's mouth.
Sharks

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

By Laura Baisas

tail of a humpback whale in the ocean sticking out of the waves
Whales

Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI

By Mack DeGeurin

Three eggs in a nest, while a bald eagle attends to it.
Birds

Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now

By Laura Baisas

A small translucent fish with its organs visible swims in a tank.
Fish

This tiny fish is louder than an airplane taking off

By Laura Baisas

Why flamingo milk is pink
Birds

Why flamingo milk is pink

By Popular Science Team

Jellyfish glowing green underwater
Wildlife

Jellyfish-inspired glowing dye can glom onto fingerprints at crime scenes

By Andrew Paul

Tiger walking across snow
Endangered Species

NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers

By Andrew Paul

An orange Chaunacops fish swimming in the waters of Chile’s Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.
Fish

See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with the help of a deep-diving sea robot

By Laura Baisas

Sea cucumbers and fish feeding at a coral reef.
Wildlife

Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need

By Laura Baisas

Two sea lampreys. They have circular heads with rows of teeth and a suction cup mouth at the center.
Wildlife

You might have more in common with the sea lamprey than you realize

By Laura Baisas

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time
Birds

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

A single humpback whale calf swimming in the waters off of French Polynesia.
Whales

We finally know how baleen whales make noise

By Laura Baisas

Giant Antarctic sea spiders can grow up to 20 inches wide.
Wildlife

Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ reproductive mystery solved after 140 years of confusion

By Laura Baisas

Two lionesses. One tilts her head towards the left, while the other sticks out her tongue.
Wildlife

Captive big cats can tell voices apart

By Laura Baisas

A Skywalker gibbon in a green and leafy forest. Distinguishing characteristics of Skywalker hoolock gibbons compared to other gibbons include thinner eyebrows, a black or brown beard instead of a white one, and incomplete white face rings on the females, like this adult.
Wildlife

Scientists tracked the love songs of Skywalker gibbons to find them

By Laura Baisas

A mother and calf humpback whale swim underwater.
Endangered Species

Close to half of migratory species are in serious decline: UN report

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an ancient shark called Glikmanius careforum swimming. It was about 10 to 12 feet long and had a powerful bite.
Sharks

Three new ancient shark species discovered in Alabama and Kentucky

By Laura Baisas

Anchovy sex is a force of nature
Fish

Anchovy sex is a force of nature

By Christina Couch / Hakai Magazine

Eight gray seals and four wild horses stand on a sandy beach.
Wildlife

See wild horses and gray seals mingle on Sable Island

By Laura Baisas

The St. George’s Cross medusa is about four inches wide, three inches long, and has about 240 tentacles. It has a red cross on its body when viewed from above.
Wildlife

New jellyfish discovered near Japan may contain multitudes of venom

By Laura Baisas

An ermine moth with white wings and black spots sits on a yellow dandelion.
Wildlife

Moths fight against echolocating bats with sounds of their own

By Laura Baisas

Chronic wasting disease currently is known to infect only members of the cervid family—elk, deer, reindeer, caribou, and moose.
Wildlife

Possibility of wildlife-to-human crossover heightens concern about chronic wasting disease

By Jim Robbins / KFF Health News

Three common clownfish with orange coloring and white stripes swimming in a sea anemone.
Fish

Can clownfish count?

By Laura Baisas

‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also inspired a generation of shark scientists
Sharks

‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also inspired a generation of shark scientists

By Gavin Naylor/The Conversation

A multiple-exposure photograph of insects circling an artificial light at night. The light can mess with a moth’s sense of what direction is up and which way is down.
Wildlife

Why artificial light—and evolution—trap moths

By Laura Baisas

H5N1 flu has been confirmed in Gentoo penguins for the first time. Over 20 Gentoo chicks have been reported dead from the virus or are showing symptoms of this highly contagious strain of bird flu.
Wildlife

Antarctic penguins are now dying from the H5N1 strain of bird flu

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. Six primates that resemble chimpanzees are in a wooded area. Some are walking upright on two legs, while others are on all fours.
Wildlife

Extinct ape’s inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright

By Laura Baisas

A great white pup swimming in the Pacific Ocean. In July 2023, wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes took footage of what could be the first newborn great white shark ever recorded.
Sharks

This could be the first newborn great white shark ever captured on camera

By Laura Baisas

This photograph shows a male dusky antechinus in a naturalistic enclosure located in Cape Otway, Australia.
Wildlife

Sex is more important than sleep for these marsupials

By Laura Baisas

A colony of Emperor penguins in Antarctica. The larger black, white, and yellow adult penguins are standing behind the small and fuzzy black, white, and grey chicks.
Birds

Poop stains reveal four previously unknown Emperor penguin colonies

By Laura Baisas

A blue bottle fly.
Wildlife

How bug ‘wranglers’ help document the lives of flies, dung beetles, and more

By Laura Baisas

A colorful orange pink, and purple butterfly rotates against a dark screen. A new camera system and software package allows both researchers and filmmakers to capture and display animal-view videos.
Wildlife

How animals see the world, according to a new camera system

By Laura Baisas

A sea otter resting in a kelp bed in Monterey Bay, California.
Wildlife

Sea otters can help conserve vital kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

A brownish-gray tardigrade swimming. These microscopic invertebrates have eight limbs and shriveled skin.
Wildlife

We may know what makes tardigrades so darn tough

By Laura Baisas

A mako shark swimming in the ocean.
Sharks

The ‘meg’ may have been longer and less chonky than previously thought

By Laura Baisas