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Jackie and Shadow tending to the eggs as snow covers the region on March 7, 2024.
Environment

Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the antlers of an irish elk
Environment

Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers

By Laura Baisas

several small and translucent glass eels on a yellow cloth
Environment

How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’

By Laura Baisas

a human wears a fox mask while feeding a baby fox in its care
Environment

Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit

By Laura Baisas

Group of Marco Polo Sheep on a snowy mountainside.
Environment

Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting

By Andrew Paul

a group of black and white ring-tailed lemurs sitting in green trees.
Environment

Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of cyborg jellyfish with forebody attachments
Technology

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

By Andrew Paul

A potentially new squid species found off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Science

New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

a deep sea worm with feathery appendages
Environment

Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’

By Laura Baisas

A silver gar fish with a long snout.
Environment

Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’

By Laura Baisas

An orca whale hunts a great white shark. Blood is seen near the orca's mouth.
Environment

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

By Laura Baisas

tail of a humpback whale in the ocean sticking out of the waves
Technology

Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI

By Mack DeGeurin

Three eggs in a nest, while a bald eagle attends to it.
Environment

Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now

By Laura Baisas

A small translucent fish with its organs visible swims in a tank.
Environment

This tiny fish is louder than an airplane taking off

By Laura Baisas

Why flamingo milk is pink
Environment

Why flamingo milk is pink

By Popular Science Team

Jellyfish glowing green underwater
Environment

Jellyfish-inspired glowing dye can glom onto fingerprints at crime scenes

By Andrew Paul

Tiger walking across snow
Environment

NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers

By Andrew Paul

An orange Chaunacops fish swimming in the waters of Chile’s Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.
Environment

See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with the help of a deep-diving sea robot

By Laura Baisas

Sea cucumbers and fish feeding at a coral reef.
Environment

Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need

By Laura Baisas

Two sea lampreys. They have circular heads with rows of teeth and a suction cup mouth at the center.
Environment

You might have more in common with the sea lamprey than you realize

By Laura Baisas

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time
Environment

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

A single humpback whale calf swimming in the waters off of French Polynesia.
Environment

We finally know how baleen whales make noise

By Laura Baisas

Giant Antarctic sea spiders can grow up to 20 inches wide.
Environment

Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ reproductive mystery solved after 140 years of confusion

By Laura Baisas

Two lionesses. One tilts her head towards the left, while the other sticks out her tongue.
Environment

Captive big cats can tell voices apart

By Laura Baisas

A Skywalker gibbon in a green and leafy forest. Distinguishing characteristics of Skywalker hoolock gibbons compared to other gibbons include thinner eyebrows, a black or brown beard instead of a white one, and incomplete white face rings on the females, like this adult.
Environment

Scientists tracked the love songs of Skywalker gibbons to find them

By Laura Baisas

A mother and calf humpback whale swim underwater.
Environment

Close to half of migratory species are in serious decline: UN report

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an ancient shark called Glikmanius careforum swimming. It was about 10 to 12 feet long and had a powerful bite.
Science

Three new ancient shark species discovered in Alabama and Kentucky

By Laura Baisas

Anchovy sex is a force of nature
Environment

Anchovy sex is a force of nature

By Christina Couch / Hakai Magazine

Eight gray seals and four wild horses stand on a sandy beach.
Environment

See wild horses and gray seals mingle on Sable Island

By Laura Baisas

The St. George’s Cross medusa is about four inches wide, three inches long, and has about 240 tentacles. It has a red cross on its body when viewed from above.
Environment

New jellyfish discovered near Japan may contain multitudes of venom

By Laura Baisas

An ermine moth with white wings and black spots sits on a yellow dandelion.
Science

Moths fight against echolocating bats with sounds of their own

By Laura Baisas

Chronic wasting disease currently is known to infect only members of the cervid family—elk, deer, reindeer, caribou, and moose.
Health

Possibility of wildlife-to-human crossover heightens concern about chronic wasting disease

By Jim Robbins / KFF Health News

Three common clownfish with orange coloring and white stripes swimming in a sea anemone.
Environment

Can clownfish count?

By Laura Baisas

‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also inspired a generation of shark scientists
Environment

‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also inspired a generation of shark scientists

By Gavin Naylor/The Conversation

A multiple-exposure photograph of insects circling an artificial light at night. The light can mess with a moth’s sense of what direction is up and which way is down.
Environment

Why artificial light—and evolution—trap moths

By Laura Baisas

H5N1 flu has been confirmed in Gentoo penguins for the first time. Over 20 Gentoo chicks have been reported dead from the virus or are showing symptoms of this highly contagious strain of bird flu.
Environment

Antarctic penguins are now dying from the H5N1 strain of bird flu

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. Six primates that resemble chimpanzees are in a wooded area. Some are walking upright on two legs, while others are on all fours.
Science

Extinct ape’s inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright

By Laura Baisas

A great white pup swimming in the Pacific Ocean. In July 2023, wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes took footage of what could be the first newborn great white shark ever recorded.
Environment

This could be the first newborn great white shark ever captured on camera

By Laura Baisas

This photograph shows a male dusky antechinus in a naturalistic enclosure located in Cape Otway, Australia.
Environment

Sex is more important than sleep for these marsupials

By Laura Baisas

A colony of Emperor penguins in Antarctica. The larger black, white, and yellow adult penguins are standing behind the small and fuzzy black, white, and grey chicks.
Environment

Poop stains reveal four previously unknown Emperor penguin colonies

By Laura Baisas

A blue bottle fly.
Environment

How bug ‘wranglers’ help document the lives of flies, dung beetles, and more

By Laura Baisas

A colorful orange pink, and purple butterfly rotates against a dark screen. A new camera system and software package allows both researchers and filmmakers to capture and display animal-view videos.
Environment

How animals see the world, according to a new camera system

By Laura Baisas

A sea otter resting in a kelp bed in Monterey Bay, California.
Environment

Sea otters can help conserve vital kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

A brownish-gray tardigrade swimming. These microscopic invertebrates have eight limbs and shriveled skin.
Environment

We may know what makes tardigrades so darn tough

By Laura Baisas

A mako shark swimming in the ocean.
Environment

The ‘meg’ may have been longer and less chonky than previously thought

By Laura Baisas

A yellow salamander with a brown stripe on its back sits on a green leaf.
Environment

Why small, scary, and ‘non-charismatic’ lost species are harder to rediscover

By Laura Baisas

Dead elephant seal pups in the front line with an adult male carcass contrasting in size, and another adult individual in the background. The beach in Argentina is empty of living seals that should be thriving in the area at this time of the year.
Environment

Seal pup die-off from avian flu in Argentina looks ‘apocalyptic’

By Laura Baisas

An octopus hatchling emerges from a group of eggs at a new octopus nursery. This nursery was first discovered in June 2023 at Tengosed Seamount off Costa Rica.
Environment

Four new octopus species discovered in the deep-sea vents off Costa Rica

By Laura Baisas

An Eastern dwarf tree frog covered in seeds.
Environment

These Australian frogs get absolutely covered in seeds

By Ethan Freedman

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography
Technology

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography

By Andrew Paul

A pink hummingbird sits on a perch inside of a tunnel. Green and black stripes are projected on the walls of the tunnel.
Environment

How hummingbirds switch gears at breakneck speeds

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of a group of G. blacki within a forest in southern China. Four of these giant apes sit on the grass near a stream, while an orangutan hangs from a tree branch. They are brown with yellow-ish manes around their faces.
Environment

These extinct, nearly 10-foot-tall apes could not adapt to shifting seasons

By Laura Baisas

Fruit bats hanging on tree branches in daylight in Bangladesh on November 6, 2023.
Science

Why fruit bats can eat tons of sugar without getting diabetes

By Laura Baisas

Microscopic view of Oikopleura dioica
Science

This tiny sea creature builds a ‘snot palace’ to capture food

By Andrew Paul

An illustration of the pelagic ecosystem and the organisms fossilized in Sirius Passet, revealing how Timorebestia was one of the largest predators in the water column more than 518 million years ago.
Environment

Extinct ‘terror beasts’ were some pretty formidable worms

By Laura Baisas

Salmon fishing in Alaska, fisherman in gloves handling fish in net on a boat
Environment

As salmon disappear, a battle over Alaska Native fishing rights heats up

By Max Graham/Grist

A jellyfish Cladonema pacificum with multiple branched tentacles.
Environment

These fingernail-sized jellyfish can regenerate tentacles—but how?

By Laura Baisas

Three feral hogs in grass. One is black and standing while grazing. The middle is gray and sitting. The third is brown and also sitting.
Environment

Wild ‘super pigs’ from Canada could become a new front in the war on feral hogs

By Marcus Lashley / The Conversation

Five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs have been identified
Environment

Five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs have been identified

By Laura Baisas

A small brown frog standing on leaves at the water’s edge.
Environment

This tiny ‘leaf-nester’ is the smallest known fanged frog

By Laura Baisas

An aardvark with a long nose sits in grass.
Environment

Why scientists are studying aardvarks’ poop

By Laura Baisas

Lessons from Lake Tanganyika’s scale eating fish
Environment

Lessons from Lake Tanganyika’s scale eating fish

By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader

A reindeer stands on snowy ground with hills in the distance.
Environment

Reindeer can see UV light—and we may know why

By Laura Baisas

A bearded seal swimming in Arctic waters in Svalbard, Norway. Their name comes from the long and sensitive facial whiskers that they use to find food.
Science

Arctic seals have special noses

By Laura Baisas

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