Wildlife(Page 17)

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

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Alaska chum salmon
Environment

Alaska’s salmon are in chaos

By Victoria Petersen / High Country News

A beginner’s guide to iPhone bird photography
DIY

A beginner’s guide to iPhone bird photography

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Baby orca next to adult in the Salish Sea near Washington
Environment

A baby orca sparks a glimmer of hope for an endangered group of whales

By Miyo McGinn

red panda sleeping on branch
Environment

We don’t have a full picture of the planet’s shrinking biodiversity. Here’s why.

By Sara Kiley Watson

A crow and a vulture with a bright red head stand facing one another on a leaf-covered forest floor.
Environment

The wackiest-looking birds are the most at risk for extinction

By Philip Kiefer

Pileated woodpecker with a red cap and black and white face pecking on wood in nine high speed video frames
Environment

Why woodpeckers actually don’t need shock-absorbing skulls to headbang

By Kate Baggaley

Caribou peeking over horizon
Environment

Climate change is forcing massive wildlife migrations towards the poles

By Benjamin von Brackel

Forest with mountain and sunset in background.
Environment

Why you can’t put a price on biodiversity

By Sara Kiley Watson

fin-whales-drake-passage
Environment

An Antarctic feeding frenzy means good news for vulnerable fin whales

By Corinne Iozzio

Fossil frog skeleton in rock from German swamp
Environment

A swamp orgy went terribly wrong for these prehistoric frogs

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Fish raining from sky on local news
Environment

We may know why fish rained from the sky over Texas

By Paul Richards / Field & Stream

Red fox with eyes closed and teeth bared
Environment

Can I have a pet fox?

By Dan Nosowitz

a sperm whale swimming under water
Science

Megalodons liked to snack on sperm whale snouts

By Rachel Feltman

Soil with small green plants.
Environment

Diverse microbes are key to healthy soil. Climate change is threatening that.

By Carla Delgado

Fat baby seal looking at the camera
Environment

Facial recognition works on seals. No, really.

By Sean Mowbray / Hakai Magazine

shark-near-florida
Environment

Sharks are learning to love coastal cities

By Corinne Iozzio

a siberian husky in the snow howls
Science

Ancient wolf DNA is being used to sniff out where our love story with dogs began

By Kate Baggaley

a large black stick bug isolated on a black background
Environment

Macro portraits reveal the glamor and peril of endangered insects

By Lauren J. Young

Farmer holding freshly harvested carrots.
Environment

The EU’s plan to halve pesticide use is ambitious, but realistic

By Sara Kiley Watson

a close up of a face mite poking out of a skin pore
Science

The mites that breed on our faces are getting clingier by the day

By Lauren J. Young

a turtle with a bit of moss on its face
Health

Could reptiles and amphibians hold the key to the fountain of youth?

By Kate Baggaley

Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica filamentous bacteria on black
Environment

Ever heard of giant bacteria? This new species is way bigger and weirder.

By Maria Parazo Rose

megalodon
Environment

Could an ancient megashark still lurk in the deep seas?

By Riley Black

Giant freshwater fish
Environment

This is the largest freshwater fish ever caught

By Paul Richards / Field & Stream

Colorful mantis shrimp with giant eyes that have color vision on black background
Environment

Do animals feel pain? Science author Ed Yong says that’s the wrong question.

By Philip Kiefer

a family of polar bears walk on a glacier
Environment

Greenland’s polar bears are learning to get around in a less icy world

By Kate Baggaley

Starfish spawning in water
Environment

8 award-winning photos of nature’s stranger things

By Stephanie Stone

A piping plover shorebird walks on sand, with tawny feathers on his back, a white stomach, a black band of feathers on his neck, and a green band on his ankle
Science

Remembering Monty and Rose, the Chicago shorebirds that became the face of a movement

By Ella Weaver

SpaceX rocket launch facility near Boca Chica, Texas.
Environment

What SpaceX’s final Starbase permits could mean for Texas wildlife

By Kristine Liao

What an ancient jawbone reveals about polar bear evolution
Science

What an ancient jawbone reveals about polar bear evolution

By Philip Kiefer

A baby sea turtle on a beach near some sea turtle tracks, and some people in the background.
DIY

Safely share the beach with endangered sea turtles this summer

By Alisha McDarris

A great white shark and megalodon co-existed nearly 4 million years ago.
Environment

How great white sharks probably hastened the demise of megalodon

By Kate Baggaley

A condor.
Environment

Inside the Yurok Tribe’s mission to make critically endangered condors thrive

By Brian Oaster / High Country News

A colorful parrot hooked onto a tree with its beak.
Environment

What’s got two legs and a head for climbing? Rosy-faced lovebirds.

By Philip Kiefer

A horde of horseshoe crabs mates on the beach
Environment

7 animal mating rituals that make horseshoe crab orgies look tame

By Ella Weaver

A recreation of Yorkicystis haefneri, a historic creature
Environment

This strange 500-million-year-old sea urchin relative lost its skeleton

By Samuel Zamora / The Conversation

A jackdaw, a Eurasian bird that launches into the sky in flocks of hundreds.
Environment

Demo-crow-cy: Jackdaws leave the roost by voting

By Hannah Seo

A photo of a humpback whale and her calf.
Environment

Boat noise is driving humpback whale moms into deep, dangerous water

By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine

a small brown salamander on a log
Environment

Skydiving salamanders have mastered falling with style

By Kate Baggaley

a large mass of jumping worms in a bucket is compared to a person's hand size
Environment

The jumping worm invasion may be less worrisome than it sounds

By Ella Weaver

Moose in Main are in danger.
Environment

Climate change-emboldened ticks are killing off moose in Maine

By Paul Richards / Field & Stream

remora fish attached to swimming manta ray
Environment

This amphibious drone hitchhikes like a suckerfish

By Charlotte Hu

A photo of a salmon hybrid.
Environment

This wild salmon hybrid is raising concerns in Canada

By Kris Millgate/Field & Stream

Two adults and a child in a rowboat on a calm lake at sunset. The man at the bow is paddling, the man at the back is holding a fishing rod, and the child is sitting between them.
Environment

A casual angler’s guide to taking kids fishing for the first time

By Jean Levasseur

The Iron Curtain’s border zone has grown into a wild, ecological haven
Environment

The Iron Curtain’s border zone has grown into a wild, ecological haven

By Sarah Baxter

Small brown-black migratory bat help in a person's hand with head facing camera
Environment

This itty bitty bat flew across two continents at record speed

By Ella Weaver

A turtle crossing a road.
DIY

What to do if you find a turtle in the road

By Natalie Wallington

People standing on a bridge at sunset while bats fly over.
Environment

Climate change could introduce humans to thousands of new viruses

By Philip Kiefer

Caribbean flamingo chick tucked into the pink feathers on the back of its parent
Environment

Before they grow into splendor, flamingos are just awkward floofs

By Claudio Contreras Koob and Martha A. Salazar

robotic buoy floating in ocean
Technology

Whale-monitoring robots are oceanic eavesdroppers with a mission

By Charlotte Hu

A photo of perch on a fish smoker being smoked.
Environment

Everything you need to smoke fish

By Jack Hennessy / Field & Stream

two spiders entangled together mating
Environment

These male spiders fling into the air to escape post-coital cannibalism

By Lauren J. Young

Two crows attacking a feeding bald eagle along the water
Environment

Crows and ravens flexed smarts and strength for world dominance

By Ella Weaver

fluorescent view of an archerfish's skeleton and anatomy
Environment

An archerfish family tree is the best shot yet at the evolution of sniper fish

By Ella Weaver

On the left, multicolor eggs form a circle. On the right, a cuckoo finch is with two host chicks.
Environment

Thanks to a matriarchal gene, this bird can trick others into caring for its eggs

By Ella Weaver

Eight brightly colored birds from a museum specimens collection laid out on their backs on white
Science

Songbirds near the equator really are hotter, color-wise

By Kate Baggaley

Two mid-sized brown owls sitting on a branch in daylight with horses, rhinos, and soaring birds in the background in an illustration
Environment

Meet the ancient owl that embraced daylight

By Purbita Saha

a close up profile of a vampire bat
Environment

How vampire bats evolved to get the most out of their bloody diets

By Kate Baggaley

a yellow wheeled robot approaches a colony of penguins in the snow
Environment

The march of the penguins has a new star: an autonomous robot

By Lauren J. Young

Small brilliant colored reef fish with a pink face, yellow fins, and purple tail on a black background
Environment

This rainbow reef fish is just as magical as it looks

By Purbita Saha

Map of vulnerable species in the United States.
Environment

Here’s where biodiversity is disappearing the quickest in the US

By Sara Kiley Watson

An image of a spider web to illustrate a story about a South American species of social spiders.
Environment

These spiders go off vibes to hunt in packs

By Maggie Galloway

A galloping horse.
Environment

Ancient sea creatures pioneered the gallop

By Kate Baggaley

A black bear, which people can struggle to distinguish from other bears.
Environment

Burglar bear Hank the Tank might be even tougher to catch. Here’s why.

By Hannah Seo