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Looking for bats in all the wrong places
Environment

Looking for bats in all the wrong places

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Bats, too, love the city life
Environment

Bats, too, love the city life

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Vampire bats could soon swarm to the United States
Environment

Vampire bats could soon swarm to the United States

By Kate Baggaley

Holy Harp Trap, Batman! The gear researchers use to study bats
Environment

Holy Harp Trap, Batman! The gear researchers use to study bats

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

One cave’s losing battle against a deadly bat fungus
Environment

One cave’s losing battle against a deadly bat fungus

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Great tits aren’t the only things evolving to adapt to humans. Here are 12 others.
Science

Great tits aren’t the only things evolving to adapt to humans. Here are 12 others.

By Sara Chodosh

These dirty birds show why we need natural history museums
Environment

These dirty birds show why we need natural history museums

By Mary Beth Griggs

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble
Environment

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble

By Kate Baggaley

These male jumping spiders evolved dance moves because the ladies ignore them
Environment

These male jumping spiders evolved dance moves because the ladies ignore them

By Sara Chodosh

Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark
Environment

Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark

By Julie Beck

Florida’s climate might—maybe—save a handful of America’s ash trees
Environment

Florida’s climate might—maybe—save a handful of America’s ash trees

By Ellen Airhart

jellyfish
Environment

These jellyfish don’t have brains, but still somehow seem to sleep

By Nicole Wetsman

Eel shocks scientist
Environment

One scientist’s truly shocking quest to understand eels

By Ellen Airhart

Wildfires raged over nine states for the first half of September. Here’s what will rise from the ashes.
Environment

Wildfires raged over nine states for the first half of September. Here’s what will rise from the ashes.

By Ellen Airhart

Meet the man fighting to save our country’s rarest chickens
Environment

Meet the man fighting to save our country’s rarest chickens

By Maryn McKenna

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot
Environment

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot

By Mary Beth Griggs

Space weather may be killing sperm whales
Environment

Space weather may be killing sperm whales

By Sara Chodosh

person holding a bat
Environment

Hurricane Harvey’s putting bats at risk—but help is on the way

By Ellen Airhart

Why fish can’t help but eat our plastic garbage
Environment

Why fish can’t help but eat our plastic garbage

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

a goldfish
Science

How goldfish use booze to get through a hard winter

By Rachel Feltman

Swedish church
Environment

Bats are disappearing from churches in Sweden, and that’s not a good thing

By Mary Beth Griggs

Why scientists are racing to uncover the Greenland shark’s secrets
Environment

Why scientists are racing to uncover the Greenland shark’s secrets

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

hoodwinker sunfish
Environment

Meet an elusive, tragic, and incredibly bizarre new species of fish

By Sara Chodosh

Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds
Environment

Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds

By Sara Chodosh

To save endangered whales, look to the poop
Environment

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

By Kate Baggaley

Sea spiders use their guts to pump oxygen through their freaky little bodies
Environment

Sea spiders use their guts to pump oxygen through their freaky little bodies

By Sarah Fecht

Jellyfish use high-powered ‘syringes’ to shoot venom into your skin
Environment

Jellyfish use high-powered ‘syringes’ to shoot venom into your skin

By Mary Beth Griggs

Cockatoos make their own lil drumsticks to play music
Environment

Cockatoos make their own lil drumsticks to play music

By Sara Kiley Watson

Pandas, which are basically giant poop machines, may inadvertently help save other species
Environment

Pandas, which are basically giant poop machines, may inadvertently help save other species

By Rachel Feltman

Birds’ ability to fly could determine the shape of their eggs
Environment

Birds’ ability to fly could determine the shape of their eggs

By Aparna Nathan

Toxic mercury levels are actually declining in Alaskan polar bears—but that’s not as great as it sounds
Environment

Toxic mercury levels are actually declining in Alaskan polar bears—but that’s not as great as it sounds

By Aparna Nathan

A bird’s song might be in her genes
Environment

A bird’s song might be in her genes

By Mary Beth Griggs

Slimy, fleshy lips dripping with snot help these fish eat stinging corals
Environment

Slimy, fleshy lips dripping with snot help these fish eat stinging corals

By Mary Beth Griggs

Why whales are back in New York City
Environment

Why whales are back in New York City

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

How the Galapagos cormorant forgot how to fly
Science

How the Galapagos cormorant forgot how to fly

By Mary Beth Griggs

Faceless fish
Environment

Faceless fish aren’t the only absurd creatures emerging from Australia’s Eastern Abyss

By Sara Chodosh

How one community rallied to save turtles from becoming roadkill
Environment

How one community rallied to save turtles from becoming roadkill

By Mary Beth Griggs

No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks
Environment

No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks

By Rachel Feltman

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.
Environment

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Turtle hatchling close-up, Texas
Environment

It’s World Turtle Day, so here are a bunch of adorable turtles

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin is waddling towards extinction
Environment

New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin is waddling towards extinction

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

This ancient whale had teeth, but it still sucked food off the ocean floor
Environment

This ancient whale had teeth, but it still sucked food off the ocean floor

By Mary Beth Griggs

Love eating chicken? Thank hungry Medieval Catholics.
Environment

Love eating chicken? Thank hungry Medieval Catholics.

By Sarah Fecht

A disturbing number of humpback whales are dying off the east coast
Environment

A disturbing number of humpback whales are dying off the east coast

By Mary Beth Griggs

Birds are changing their songs to shout over traffic noise
Environment

Birds are changing their songs to shout over traffic noise

By Mary Beth Griggs

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo
Environment

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo

By Kate Baggaley

Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly
Environment

Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly

By Rachel Feltman

Living with a lynx—for science
Environment

Living with a lynx—for science

By Thomas McNamee

Plagued by predators in the sea, these fish are moving onto land
Science

Plagued by predators in the sea, these fish are moving onto land

By Mark D. Kaufman

underwater image of true's beaked whale
Environment

Here’s the first video of one of the planet’s most elusive beaked whales

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

The embattled campaign for Canada’s national bird
Environment

The embattled campaign for Canada’s national bird

By Kate Baggaley

Acipenser sinensis (Chinese sturgeon)
Environment

Ten of the ugliest animals threatened by climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Pandas have cute markings because their food supply sucks
Environment

Pandas have cute markings because their food supply sucks

By Sara Chodosh

Lasers reveal the secrets of a feathered dinosaur fossil
Science

Lasers reveal the secrets of a feathered dinosaur fossil

By Mary Beth Griggs

laughing owl
Environment

Resurrecting extinct animals might do more harm than good

By Sarah Fecht

Manatee waving
Environment

Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

By Sara Chodosh

Why can whale nerves stretch and turn like bungee cords?
Environment

Why can whale nerves stretch and turn like bungee cords?

By Claire Maldarelli

How New Zealand is avoiding hundreds of exploding whale corpses
Environment

How New Zealand is avoiding hundreds of exploding whale corpses

By Sara Chodosh

Delightful pictures of zoo animals playing in the snow
Environment

Delightful pictures of zoo animals playing in the snow

By Sarah Fecht

Drones are setting their sights on wildlife
Technology

Drones are setting their sights on wildlife

By Kate Baggaley

Climate change and overfishing set a deadly trap for young penguins
Environment

Climate change and overfishing set a deadly trap for young penguins

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

gray wolf
Environment

Hunters may need to keep their paws off Wisconsin wolves

By Sarah Fecht

Celebrate Year of the Rooster with the best chicken science
Environment

Celebrate Year of the Rooster with the best chicken science

By Cici Zhang

Scientists want to give the world a second chance at Caspian tigers
Environment

Scientists want to give the world a second chance at Caspian tigers

By Sarah Fecht

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