Wildlife(Page 6)

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

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A harbor seal viewing a simulation of the seabed rushing beneath him, with a red ball target either side of his head to touch, to indicate which direction he appeared to be moving in.
Wildlife

Seals playing a video game reveal how they find their way

By Laura Baisas

a turtle with a large hole in its shell
Wildlife

Turtle’s mysterious injury caused by a golf ball

By Margherita Bassi

A female oceanic whitetip shark seen feeding on the carcass.
Sharks

Sharks surprise scientists by sharing a meal

By Laura Baisas

a pygmy hippo shows teeth in seemingly happy way
Endangered Species

This 51-year-old pygmy hippo just set a world record

By Popular Science Team

a man holds a long projectile tool made from a whale bone.
Whales

Oldest-known whale bone tools discovered in a Spanish cave

By Laura Baisas

a large American bullfrog in water with vegetation
Endangered Species

This invasive frog can fit baby turtles inside its mouth

By Margherita Bassi

two birds with black and white plumage with dots of yellow or blue feathers neat their beaks sit near a nest
Birds

Male hornbills are at their mates’ every beck and call

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration showing the various sizes of extinct giant sloths
Wildlife

8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go?

By Laura Baisas

Adélie penguins walking along the Antarctic coastline.
Birds

How pungent poop could help Antarctica’s penguins

By Laura Baisas

Man holding woolly rat out for camera
Wildlife

Elusive woolly rat photographed for the first time

By Andrew Paul

a clear marine worm with many appendages branching out of its torso and some dots of colors
Wildlife

Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating

By Laura Baisas

Sargassum algae piles up along the shore at a beach in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Wildlife

31 million tons of seaweed ready to stink up Florida’s beaches

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale calf swims in front of its mother
Whales

Humpback whales can give birth while migrating thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

a baby howler monkey on the back of a juvenile capuchin
Wildlife

Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists

By Lauren Leffer

a bird sits in several paper towels forming a circular donut-shaped nest
Birds

Why a ‘donut’ can help injured birds

By Margherita Bassi

Blue jay on city sidewalk.
Birds

What to do if you find a baby bird out of its nest

By RJ Mackenzie

a black and white snake with two heads
Wildlife

Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving

By Margherita Bassi

thousands of birds take to the sky
Birds

Weather radar picks up over 1 million migrating birds

By Margherita Bassi

four puffins with white and black plumage and bright orange bills stand on a rock overlooking the north sea
Birds

Puffin-counting season begins with two new livestreams

By Laura Baisas

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, under UV light to expose soft tissues.
Birds

Feathered fossil shows famed dinosaur could fly (like a chicken)

By Andrew Paul

a split image of two newly discovered poison dart frogs. the one on the left has yellow legs with brown spots and green-ish stripes. the frog on the right has a brown body with light blue stripes
Wildlife

It’s raining tiny toxic frogs

By Lauren Leffer

An illustration of what the Amniote (early reptile) would look like from 350 million years ago.
Wildlife

Amateur paleontologists uncover earliest known ‘reptile’ footprints

By Laura Baisas

two eaglets with black feathers sitting in nest
Birds

Bittersweet fledge watch begins for bald eagles Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pink flamingo feeding in a shallow pool. a swirling vortex of water is near its beak
Birds

Flamingos conjure ‘water tornadoes’ to trap their prey

By Laura Baisas

A mother chimpanzee carrying her twins on her back.
Wildlife

Wild chimp babies bond with their moms in human-like ways

By Laura Baisas

Various flowers in a flowerbed in soft sunlight in summertime.
Wildlife

Everything you need to know about chaos gardening

By Debbie Wolfe

a tiger peers through a rib cage of dead animal
Wildlife

17 unforgettable images from the Environmental Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a close-up of a chimpanzee eating a piece of watermelon
Wildlife

Chimpanzees can keep a rhythmic beat

By Laura Baisas

Close up of aoudad ram
Wildlife

Texas aims to legalize hunting invasive sheep from helicopters

By Andrew Paul

a snow leopard walking down a mountainside
Wildlife

Northern India’s elusive snow leopards get their close up

By Laura Baisas

a snail laying an egg from its neck
Wildlife

Watch a snail lay an egg…from its neck

By Laura Baisas

a papier mache bird sits in a field
Birds

Grand Teton deploys papier-mâché birds

By Popular Science Team

A blue tit flies to a feeder in a garden, where a great spotted woodpecker is currently sitting.
Birds

Are backyard bird feeders safe? How to stop illness and intruders.

By Laura Baisas

A Yangtze finless porpoise hunting in China’s Poyang Lake. Fish are jumping all around the porpoise as it leaps out of the water.
Wildlife

Poems spanning 1,400 years tell the tale of a revered porpoise

By Laura Baisas

a lion cub sniffs a tortoise hiding in its shell
Wildlife

10 beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Mule deer scratching itself
Wildlife

Good luck guessing Yosemite’s most dangerous animal

By Andrew Paul

a mosquito under a microscope
Wildlife

What would a world without mosquitoes look like?

By RJ Mackenzie

An axolotl crawling up to the aquarium pane at the Hamburg animal shelter.
Endangered Species

Axolotls raised in captivity can survive in the wild

By Laura Baisas

Bald eaglets in canoe with caps over eyes
Birds

Rescuers borrow canoe to save baby bald eagles in river

By Andrew Paul

A fringe-lipped bat approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract females, and uses these frog calls to detect, assess, and localize its prey.
Bats

Young bats develop a ‘caller ID’ to avoid poisonous prey

By Laura Baisas

two baby gorillas play in a tree
Endangered Species

20 unforgettable images of Earth’s animal kingdom

By Popular Science Team

an owl has a full juvenile turtle in her beak. an owlet stands at her feet staring up
Birds

Watch an owl try to eat a turtle whole

By Laura Baisas

Bone collector cases are carefully constructed from silk and exoskeleton parts.
Wildlife

‘Bone collector’ caterpillar wears the body parts of dead bugs

By Lauren Leffer

an illustration of a large red ant with curved jaws. a bird looks on with a concerned expression
Wildlife

Extinct hell ant species used specialized jaws to impale its prey

By Laura Baisas

a small marsupial with white spots stands on the ground
Endangered Species

Watch endangered marsupials return to Australian bushland after 62 years

By Laura Baisas

Coiled rattlesnake near flowering bush
Wildlife

Rattlesnakes may evolve specialized venoms

By Andrew Paul

An osprey sits on its nest protected by a human-made basket.
Birds

To protect birds and motorists, engineers build a steel nest box on bridge

By Laura Baisas

three chimpanzees sit around a round fruit sharing it
Wildlife

Wild chimps sharing ‘boozy’ fruit caught on camera for the first time

By Laura Baisas

An Emperor chick begs and squaks at its parent to be fed.
Birds

Filmmaker James Cameron on penguins, arctic cold, and lowlight cameras

By Andrew Paul

a sea slug in the ocean with whispy purple tendrils
Wildlife

Sea slugs harness the power of the sun to show off their colors

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with brown, gray, and white plumage walks in an open grassland
Birds

Ancient funerals may have included a ritual feast on a giant bird

By Laura Baisas

Two young gorillas, habituated to human presence, scratch the soil in search of truffles
Wildlife

A group of gorillas have a surprising knack for hunting truffles, researchers find

By Laura Baisas

Skelleftea, Sweden A moose warning sign on a country road in summer.
Wildlife

It’s time to tune in to the Great Moose Migration livestream

By Andrew Paul

an illustration of a small crocodile ancestor sneaking up on a small mammal ancestor
Wildlife

Crocodile ancestors survived two mass extinctions—here’s how

By Laura Baisas

first footage colossal squid
Wildlife

Colossal squid filmed in deep ocean for the first time ever

By Popular Science Team

Spotted dolphin with head above water
Wildlife

Google made an AI model to talk to dolphins

By Andrew Paul

A “zombie ant” that has been infected by the parasitic fungus Complex Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
Wildlife

Cordyceps fungus: ‘The Last of Us’ co-star thriving outside the spotlight

By Matt Kasson

a side view of an injured eagle beak that is regrowing some keratin
Birds

Images show bald eagle’s beak healing from gunshot wound

By Laura Baisas

A Birdfy Netvue bird feeder in front of trees with a red bird on it on sale at Amazon
Birds

Amazon has this bird feeder with a built-in camera for its cheapest price ever

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of cane toad tadpole eating toad eggs underwater
Wildlife

Cannibal tadpoles help Australia fight invasive species

By Andrew Paul

a baby lion sleeps on a dirt road
Wildlife

10 gorgeous wildlife photos documenting Earth’s beauty

By Popular Science Team

goose wearing cubs hat
Birds

‘Geesekeepers’ protect Canada goose nesting at Chicago’s Wrigley Field

By Annie Colbert

Galapagos tortoise
Endangered Species

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes first-time mom

By Andrew Paul

an adult eagle tends to two chicks on a nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets officially named: Meet Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas