Wildlife(Page 9)

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

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

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

By Laura Baisas

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

How to squirrel-proof your pumpkins

By Debbie Wolfe

Migrating birds introduce forever chemicals into the food chain.
Birds

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.
Birds

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.
Wildlife

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
Birds

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
Birds

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

By Laura Baisas

five toothbrushes in a cup on a bathroom sink
Wildlife

The next lifesaving antibiotic might be a virus on your toothbrush

By Laura Baisas

two oval comb jellyfish fusing together as one
Wildlife

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

By Laura Baisas

Brown tarantulas mating
Spiders

Male tarantulas seek love, find death around Halloween

By Andrew Paul

a penguin looks at the camera while swimming in icy waters
Birds

14 soaring and stunning images from 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Young Cuckoo, Canorus cuculus, in Reed Warblers nest in reedbed, Norfolk UK.
Birds

Are you my baby? The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds

By Sofia Quaglia / Knowable Magazine

Side by side of nature camera and brown bear
Bears

How the Fat Bear Week crew gets that beautiful bear footage

By Andrew Paul

the profile view of a gecko with white scales, bright orange spots, and a large yellow eye
Wildlife

Geckos have a ‘sixth sense’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground
Wildlife

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a grayish brown wombat walking next to shrubs
Wildlife

Can wombats kill with their butts? We found the hard truth.

By Laura Baisas

a microscope image of a small crustacean with a round body, two large antennae come from its head, and several small legs
Wildlife

Sorry, zooplankton don’t want to eat your poop

By Laura Baisas

Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat's malleable wings.
Bats

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

By Mack DeGeurin

Montana Mountain King sheep
Endangered Species

Montana breeder of illegal, giant sheep hybrid clones gets 6 months in prison

By Andrew Paul

Group of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on haulout, Vaygach island, Barents sea
Wildlife

Walrus DNA suggests meetings between Vikings and Indigenous Inuit

By Andrew Paul

the moment a jaguar delivers a fatal bite to the head of a caiman in a muddy river. 
Wildlife

11 unforgettable scenes from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Two Fingered Sloth close-up
Wildlife

Sloths may be in danger by the end of the century

By Andrew Paul

a condor, a large bird with black plumage, stands near a creek
Birds

4 endangered California condors will be released into the wild

By Laura Baisas

Group of Snow Geese in elegant flight against blue sky at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge in New Mexico in winter.
Birds

Why do birds migrate? Scientists have a few major theories.

By Lauren Leffer

a sea robin fish with wide pectoral fins and six crab-like legs
Fish

This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues

By Laura Baisas

a platypus floating in a creek on the Eungella National Park , Queensland, Australia
Wildlife

Platypus-like robot skin inspired by scientist’s daughter

By Andrew Paul

a CT scan of two jaw fossils from early mammals
Wildlife

A 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint shifts evolutionary timeline

By Laura Baisas

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins
Fish

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

three species of crane stand in tall grass. the first has grey, black and white plumage and is the tallest. the second has mostly white plumage. the last one is small with gray plumage.
Birds

Cranes can migrate 4,000 miles, but that’s not the hard part

By Laura Baisas

dark and finger-like fungi arise from under a piece of wood
Wildlife

Is this the creepiest fungus in the forest? Yes, definitely.

By Laura Baisas

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs
Wildlife

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

a Byrde's whale surfaces to breathe in the Pacific Ocean
Whales

Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’

By Laura Baisas

a small baby pygmy hippopotamus sits on the ground
Wildlife

Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time

By Laura Baisas

Water anole breathing through air bubble underwater
Wildlife

This lizard’s skin creates an underwater bubble helmet

By Andrew Paul

a red fish with a grumpy expression and large teeth
Fish

Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea

By Laura Baisas

a polar bear cub comes out of a den with its paw up
Wildlife

Polar bears adapted to the Arctic just 70,000 years ago

By Laura Baisas

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen.
Wildlife

Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its larvae

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat
Fish

The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth
Birds

‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth

By Laura Baisas

a whale surfaces next to a large fishing trawler
Whales

Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.

By Laura Baisas

Mini mum is one of the smallest frogs in the world, described by Mark D. Scherz and his colleagues in 2019. These tiny frogs from southeastern Madagascar live in amongst the leaf litter and feed on tiny mites. They are amongst the target species of the GEMINI project, because their closest relatives are ten times larger.
Wildlife

Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals

By Andrew Paul

an x-ray image of an eel escaping from a fish's stomach
Fish

Watch an eel escape a fish’s stomach through its gills

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a striped tasmanian tiger with sharp teeth eating the body of a wombat-like creature
Wildlife

New bone-crushing Tasmanian tiger species dug up by paleontologists

By Laura Baisas

a northern elephant seal with wide eyes looks into a camera next to an underwater acoustic monitoring device
Wildlife

Northern elephant seals know a ‘dinner bell’ when they hear one

By Laura Baisas

Peach blossom jellyfish
Wildlife

Invasive jellyfish ‘clones’ are spreading into Canada

By Andrew Paul

a pregnant porbeagle shark swims under water with two tags. one is on her dorsal fin and the other is on her back
Sharks

Who ate the pregnant porbeagle shark?

By Laura Baisas

Timelapse image of springtail jumping backwards
Wildlife

Watch the world’s fastest backflipping bug

By Andrew Paul

a huge swarm of thousands of mosquitoes
Wildlife

Mosquitoes can barely see–but a male’s vision perks up when they hear a female

By Laura Baisas

birds have culture
Birds

Birds have ‘culture.’ Just look at these nests.

By Lauren Leffer

an orange starfish with four arms of similar size and one shorter arm sits on some rocks
Wildlife

How starfish lose limbs (on purpose) and survive

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a crocodile biting an ancient seacow with a shark lurking behind it
Wildlife

Crocodile attacks sea cow. Tiger Shark picks apart sea cow.

By Laura Baisas

a small white and red squid
Wildlife

New images of deep sea wonders are surprisingly adorable

By Laura Baisas

a moth with a yellow body, pink legs, and pink and yellow wings sits on a green leaf
Wildlife

The ‘disco’ gene could help moths tell time

By Laura Baisas

Mastodon skull in Iowa creek bed
Wildlife

Huge mastodon skull found in a rural Iowa creek

By Andrew Paul

a green parrot with an open beak and orange and black eye
Birds

These parrots have accents

By Laura Baisas

several white circles surround a humpback whale with an open mouth
Whales

Humpback whales use bubble-nets as ‘tools’

By Laura Baisas

A male and a female Aphonopelma jacobii. Their small size can be seen when compared to the acorn cap, pine needles, and oak leaf.
Spiders

Newly discovered tarantulas may already be in danger

By Andrew Paul

A freshly-collected batch of venomous cone snails.
Wildlife

Precise, lethal sea snail toxin could one day lead to better medicines

By Laura Baisas

a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole
Wildlife

How pythons can eat such giant meals

By Laura Baisas

Anatomically accurate sculpture of a dodo
Birds

The dodo was faster and smarter than you think

By Andrew Paul

a spider traps a glowing firefly in its web
Spiders

Spiders may be hacking firefly signals to trap dinner

By Laura Baisas

baby sloth poses for the camera on the tree
Bats

Which animals can and can’t fart? 

By Alex Hazlett

Blind cavefish
Fish

This eyeless cavefish grows extra taste buds on its head

By Andrew Paul

Port Jackson sharks sleeping on the seafloor at Beagle Marine Park.
Sharks

Watch a huge ‘No Boys Allowed’ shark slumber party

By Laura Baisas