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

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Striated frogfish (Antennarius striatus), also known as the hairy frogfish.
Science

Anglerfish use ‘extremely rare’ mechanism to control their lures

By Andrew Paul

waves in a deep cavern
Environment

Earthquake off northern California shook the water in Devils Hole, 500 miles away

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile Nile crocodile. It is small with pointed teeth
Environment

Why are crocodiles so bumpy? A dermatological mystery has been solved

By Laura Baisas

a new shrimp-like crustacean. it is white with two protruding tusk-like appendages at its head, at least 8 legs, and two tail-like appendages at the back
Environment

New predator uncovered 25,000+ feet under the Pacific

By Laura Baisas

Nautilus captured on video
Environment

After 15 years, a vessel named ‘Nautilus’ actually saw a nautilus

By Andrew Paul

Two views of a slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum) web. The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip.
Environment

Watch a slingshot spider deploy a perfectly-timed trap

By Laura Baisas

The anglerfish species Lophius piscatorius.
Science

Anglerfish are so much more than just their dangly bioluminescent lures

By Laura Baisas

an orca whale dorsal fin coming out of the water
Environment

Orcas observed preying on massive whale sharks

By Laura Baisas

a polar bear covered in snow
Environment

13 marvelous images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Peach and Blossom, the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, are seen on the South Lawn of the White House before recieving a Presidential Pardon from US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2024.
Science

How did Thanksgiving turkeys get so darn big?

By Mack DeGeurin

a more colorful dominant male fish next to a more muted subordinate fish
Environment

Stress is warping these fish brains

By Laura Baisas

A black tiger—known for its merged stripes—patrols the Similipal Tiger Reserve. (Photo by for Prasenjeet Yadav for National Geographic)
Environment

5 fascinating wildlife images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year

By Popular Science Team

Looking from the stern of the ship as it tows the long horizontal array of hydrophones. The tow cable can be seen going through the metal horn at the stern. The hydrophone array is several hundred meters behind the ship and about 200 meters deep. Credit: Ross Chapman
Science

New theory explains mysterious ocean quacking first heard in the 1960s

By Andrew Paul

a scan of a zebrafish with its eye highlighted in green and other parts of its anatomy stained red and blue
Science

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

By Laura Baisas

Ethiopian wolf licking nectar from Ethiopian red hot poker plant
Environment

These wolves are the first known carnivores to ‘enjoy’ sweets

By Andrew Paul

A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.
Environment

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.
Science

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

a tick half embedded in human skin
Environment

How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places

By Laura Baisas

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers
Environment

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

By Laura Baisas

a female mountain lion walks at night with some kittens behind her
Environment

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with black, gray, and white, plumage solves a puzzle in a lab
Environment

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

A diver from National Geographic Pristine Seas measures the world’s largest coral colony in the Solomon Islands.
Environment

World’s largest coral discovered and it’s longer than a blue whale

By Laura Baisas

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it
Environment

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

Beluga Whale or White Whale, delphinapterus leucas, Adult
Science

Russian ‘spy whale’ was actually an aquatic guard turned ‘hooligan’

By Andrew Paul

a new mollusc with a hood over its head
Science

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

two leopards fighting in dirt
Environment

14 dramatic moments from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photo Awards

By Popular Science Team

Chimpanzee playing a number-based game on a touch screen
Science

Like humans, chimps often perform tasks differently when crowds are watching

By Andrew Paul

Pocket gopher emerging from burrow
Environment

How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back

By Andrew Paul

bats on treadmills
Environment

Why scientists made vampire bats run on treadmills

By Mack DeGeurin

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense
Environment

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

By Laura Baisas

Close up of two rhesus monkeys
Science

43 rhesus macaques have escaped from South Carolina’s ‘Monkey Farm’

By Andrew Paul

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild
Environment

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild

By Lauren Leffer

a small hippo in straw
Environment

5 things to know about pygmy hippos–like Scotland’s own Haggis

By Laura Baisas

two sperm whales singing
Science

New method for finding sperm whales kind of works like a rideshare app

By Laura Baisas

a small bat glides over water
Environment

How these tiny bats use a sound map to navigate

By Laura Baisas

a tadpole swimming
Environment

A rock in Argentina turns out to be the oldest tadpole fossil ever found

By Laura Baisas

Thalattosuchian skulls. Showing the semi-aquatic species (A and B), and the fully aquatic metriorhynchid (C).
Science

Why don’t we have deep sea crocodiles?

By Andrew Paul

a large rat wearing a red vest holds a dark, round, ball
Environment

Giant three-pound rats trained to sniff out illegal poaching

By Laura Baisas

a brown and black spider money sits in a green and leafy tree with a large, round, yellow fruit in its mouth
Environment

‘Drunk’ animals might be more common

By Laura Baisas

Male Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) in flight
Technology

Feather-inspired wing flaps may prevent planes from stalling

By Andrew Paul

A malabar gliding frog struggles and holds on to twigs to try and escape from the venomous, strong bite of its predator - a Malabar pit viper. The viper didn't let go of the frog, and the frog didn't let go of the twigs either, until it had a little life left in it. However, the frog had to give up finally, and the snake won, and swallowed this beautiful green frog. This is a stack of two images, one for frog eyes, and another for the snake's eyes. We had almost given up hopes of finding any subjects in the rainforest of Agumbe, India, due to heavy rains, but decided to stop at one last place on the way back to our stay, and this was our lucky and only find for the night.
Environment

16 brutal and captivating wildlife images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year shortlist

By Popular Science Team

An illustration of Lomankus edgecombei. This arthropod lived about 538 to 485 million years ago in dark and low-oxygen environments.
Environment

450-million-year-old arthropod found preserved in fool’s gold

By Laura Baisas

Silhouette of a loving couple hugging and kissing at sunset on the beach.
Environment

The origins of kissing may have a lot to do with body hair

By Andrew Paul

a bat with brown, black, and white fur and open eyes
Environment

Robert Battinson, Batlor Swift, and more face off in Bat Beauty Contest

By Laura Baisas

Jumping carp disrupt recreational boating and other water-based activities.
Environment

Chicago’s dirty water may be keeping invasive species at bay

By Lauren Leffer

A nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python devours a 77-pound deer in Florida.
Environment

Burmese pythons stretch their mouths even wider than we thought possible

By Andrew Paul

Jeff VanderMeer next to book cover for Absolution
Science

Jeff VanderMeer talks about his new novel and ‘deranged court jester’ Elon Musk

By Andrew Paul

An illustration, drawn and engraved, of an eastern whip-poor-will, by Richard Polydore Nodder.
Environment

What happened to this iconic bird of American horror?

By Jared Del Rosso / The Conversation

Gila monster
Science

Gila monster spit inspired a new way to detect rare pancreatic tumors

By Andrew Paul

As the tide of invasive Pacific pink salmon threatens to overwhelm Norway’s rivers, the locals—above on the Vestre Jakobselv—net or trap as many possible before the fish spawn and die, potentially changing the ecology of the region.
Environment

Where the rivers run pink

By Jude Isabella/Hakai Magazine

several orange and black monarch butterflies dot large green leaves
Environment

Scientists build rest stops for monarch butterflies on a volcano

By Laura Baisas

A photograph showing two big and two little Pyrocystis noctiluca.
Environment

Why these plankton puff up to 6x bigger than normal

By Laura Baisas

a blue whale skeleton on display at a museum
Science

Blue whale skeleton still leaking oil, 26 years after death

By Laura Baisas

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.
Science

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer. In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up a campfire to cook their meal.
Science

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools

By Laura Baisas

a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf
Environment

Seven new frog species named for their ‘Star Trek’-esque calls

By Laura Baisas

a grey squirrel climbs out of a jack-o-lantern
DIY

How to squirrel-proof your pumpkins

By Debbie Wolfe

Migrating birds introduce forever chemicals into the food chain.
Environment

Migrating seabirds are bringing forever chemicals into the Arctic

By William von Herff / Hakai Magazine

This baby toque macaque was happily suckling milk from it's mother. It was so relaxed it almost fell asleep.
Environment

13 memorable and metal Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

By Popular Science Team

a lion skull with a close up on its teeth. one of the bottom teeth has a large black cavity.
Environment

These lions devoured 28 humans, wildebeest, and more in 1898

By Laura Baisas

a finch with a sharp beak and dark plumage holds a round seed in its beak
Environment

Scientists simulate calls of ‘future finches’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large hawk-like bird carrying a long tailed rodent in its claws
Science

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos

By Laura Baisas

five toothbrushes in a cup on a bathroom sink
Science

The next lifesaving antibiotic might be a virus on your toothbrush

By Laura Baisas

two oval comb jellyfish fusing together as one
Environment

Two comb jellies can fuse together into one–and keep both butts

By Laura Baisas