Latest Wildlife Stories
A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles
Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs
Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?
How Do You Autopsy a Whale?
Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
Approved for Use: the First Birth Control for Wildlife
Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Scottish Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets
Sherlock the German Corpse-Sniffing Vulture Isn’t Quite As Helpful As Hoped
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees
Using Magnets and Stink Bombs to Keep Sharks at Bay
Batcopter Flies Along With Bat Swarms, Helping Researchers Study Bat Behavior Up Close
The Top 10 New Species of 2011
How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films
Saving the Seas: Smarter Hooks and Nets
Bats Out of Hell: Rescue Efforts for Some of the Smallest Victims of Australia’s Floods
New Scanner Tracks Zebras’ Built-In Bar Codes
New Species of Freshwater Stingray Found, X-Rayed
Video: Seagull Robot Takes Off And Flies On Its Own, Just Like the Real Thing
Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans
Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None
Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
Formerly Common Little Brown Bat May Be Headed For Endangered Species List
Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
Video: Echolocation Tricks Bats Into Trying to Drink from Sheets of Metal
Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
Bat Researchers: Please Pay Attention to Us After Halloween
Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says
Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?
Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats
Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim
First New Meat-Eating Mammal in 24 Years — Surprise, It’s Already Endangered
First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption
Great White Sharks Text Their Whereabouts, For Science and Swimmer Safety
Birds May Use Quantum Mechanics To Migrate South
New Understanding of Natural Silk’s Mysteries Could Lead to Stronger, Lighter Materials
Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate
Can a Whale Get Rabies?
German Zoo’s Bears Struck With Mystery Baldness
Something in the Water Is Feminizing Male Fish. Are We Next?
Take Down Rampaging Elephants with Automatic Entangling Leg-Cords, Star Wars Style
Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
A Material Based on Sharkskin Stops Bacterial Breakouts
This Week in Wildlife: Scientists Discover Giant Rat, Ziggy Stardust-esque Spider
Giant Free-Roving Robotic Cages Could Be the Healthy Future of Fish Farming
A Gallery and a Giveaway! “Wild Pacific” on PopSci.com
An Artificial Uterus Gives an Endangered Species a Shot at Survival
Is It True That Birds Can’t Fart?
Fifty Years Ago, Fish Were Bigger; Fifty Years From Now, They’ll Be Gone
Strong Personalities Skew Study Samples
Missing Tortoise, Reclaimed Fungi
Birds Have Got the Beat
The Dangers of Rocks
The Frog Tunneler
How Long Would it Take Piranhas to Eat a Person?
Counting Chicks, After They Hatch
Fishy Fish Eyes
Diminishing Days for Emperor Penguins
Fewer Mountain Gorillas Than Believed
Spookfish Uses Mirrors for Eyes
Anderson Cooper on Great Whites
Mass Whale Strandings in Tasmania