Wildlife(Page 21)

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

Latest in Wildlife

How (and why) to teach a polar bear to walk on a treadmill
Environment

How (and why) to teach a polar bear to walk on a treadmill

By Anna Brooks

How whale corpses feed ocean floors
Environment

How whale corpses feed ocean floors

By Eleanor Cummins

spider on a flower
Environment

Arachnids may sense electrical fields to gain a true spidey sense

By Kat Eschner

manta ray swims through Flower Garden Banks
Environment

Why biologists are so excited to find a bunch of puny manta rays

By Lexi Krupp

Koko, the beloved gorilla who communicated through sign-language, dies at age 46
Environment

Koko, the beloved gorilla who communicated through sign-language, dies at age 46

By Anna Brooks

bald eagle
Environment

Everything you think you know about bald eagles is wrong

By Sara Chodosh

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge
Environment

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge

By Lauren Steele

Spiders are secretly great roommates
Environment

Spiders are secretly great roommates

By Matt Bertone/The Conversation

Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff
Science

Scientists just discovered 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff

By Neel V. Patel

How modern-day dinosaurs survived the apocalypse
Science

How modern-day dinosaurs survived the apocalypse

By Lexi Krupp

Scientists taught a spider how to jump so they can one day do the same for robots
Environment

Scientists taught a spider how to jump so they can one day do the same for robots

By Neel Patel

Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska
Environment

Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska

By Kat Eschner

This albatross couple adopted a baby of another species
Environment

This albatross couple adopted a baby of another species

By Kim Steutermann Rogers

EarBot Drone
Technology

Drones can take scientists to strange new places—like inside whale snot

By Jessica Boddy

kiwi bird
Environment

You’d have to give birth to a 30-pound baby to truly know how a kiwi bird feels

By Sara Chodosh

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard
Environment

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard

By Kate Baggaley

Bat echolocation could help us understand ADHD
Environment

Bat echolocation could help us understand ADHD

By Kate Baggaley

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right
Science

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right

By Kat Eschner

atlantic puffin
Environment

Puffins are donning sexy little sunglasses in the name of science

By Sara Chodosh

These fish build group homes that double as devious shrimp traps
Environment

These fish build group homes that double as devious shrimp traps

By Kate Baggaley

Look to large bodies to understand long life spans
Health

Look to large bodies to understand long life spans

By Kate Baggaley

This little baby bird lived 127 million years ago and died the size of your pinky
Science

This little baby bird lived 127 million years ago and died the size of your pinky

By Rachel Feltman

Bats help grow our crops, but climate change has them on the move
Environment

Bats help grow our crops, but climate change has them on the move

By Marlene Cimons

Americans used to eat pigeon all the time—and it could be making a comeback
Environment

Americans used to eat pigeon all the time—and it could be making a comeback

By Eleanor Cummins

What if hibernating animals formed an orchestra and performed a symphony about their winter’s sleep?
Environment

What if hibernating animals formed an orchestra and performed a symphony about their winter’s sleep?

By Tom McNamara

A fish that barely sleeps could help turn humans into all-night party animals
Environment

A fish that barely sleeps could help turn humans into all-night party animals

By Claire Maldarelli

Meet the birds that work as wingmen for other males
Environment

Meet the birds that work as wingmen for other males

By Kate Baggaley

This year’s Super Bowl stadium is an avian death trap
Environment

This year’s Super Bowl stadium is an avian death trap

By Jessica Boddy

orca
Environment

Listen to this orca saying ‘hello’—for science!

By Sara Chodosh

This tiny shark eats grass and it’s doing just fine
Environment

This tiny shark eats grass and it’s doing just fine

By Kate Baggaley

male superb bird of paradise
Environment

These bird feathers are so black your eyes can’t focus on them

By Dakota McCoy/The Conversation

Most male Emperor penguins fast for 115 days—but a few of them may sneak snacks
Environment

Most male Emperor penguins fast for 115 days—but a few of them may sneak snacks

By Mary Beth Griggs

Seagulls are eating all of our garbage
Environment

Seagulls are eating all of our garbage

By Kate Baggaley

The world’s fastest shark is no match for a sack of flaccid hagfish skin
Environment

The world’s fastest shark is no match for a sack of flaccid hagfish skin

By Sara Chodosh

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about
Science

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

By Rachel Feltman

Humans may be scaring narwhals to death
Environment

Humans may be scaring narwhals to death

By Kate Baggaley

Reconstruction of the amphibious bird-like dinosaur Halszkaraptor
Science

This new, duck-like dinosaur is so wacky scientists thought it was fake

By Rachel Feltman

Dugong
Environment

Local knowledge can save endangered animals

By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Benjamin L. Jones, and Richard K.F. Unsworth/The Conversation

Cecil the Lion’s infamous death didn’t actually do much to change trophy-hunting laws
Environment

Cecil the Lion’s infamous death didn’t actually do much to change trophy-hunting laws

By Kate Baggaley

Yetis are real, they just also happen to be Himalayan brown bears
Science

Yetis are real, they just also happen to be Himalayan brown bears

By Sara Chodosh

Fake Bears
Environment

Ranking the Types of Bear Species

By Dan Nosowitz

stuffed frill shark head
Environment

Yes, the frilled shark is really freaky. But there are other ‘living fossils’ that are just as weird.

By Rachel Feltman

silvertip shark
Environment

Why some sharks are like blimps, and others are like airplanes

By Sara Chodosh

Orangutan skull
Environment

We may have a new cousin in this orangutan species—but it’s in big trouble

By Rachel Feltman

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