Wildlife

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A shark tooth next to a spoon used to excavate it from sand in Oman

In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays

an iguana with mostly green scales flecked with some orange, blue, and yellow

Don’t pick up frozen iguanas

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a mummified cheetah preserved in a laboratory. it's sharp front teeth are visible

Endangered Species

Mummified cheetahs could help save the critically endangered big cats

By Laura Baisas

a deer stands by a river

Deer markings actually glow

By Laura Baisas

the remains of an ice age wolf

14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach

By Laura Baisas

White axolotl seen underwater

Endangered Species

Is it illegal to own an axolotl? It depends.

a small black insect standing on white snow

Snow fleas use their tail to jump around the ice

By Laura Baisas

a bird with long legs and colorful feathers

A giant-footed bird showed up in a Massachusetts backyard. It didn’t belong there.

By Margherita Bassi

a mother whale and calf

Endangered Species

2026 is off to a hopeful start for these critically endangered whales

By Margherita Bassi

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 14 inches (35 centimeters) in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction event have been discovered.

Mass death paved the way for the Age of Fishes

By Laura Baisas

A vintage photograph of an explosion happening on a baech.

BOOM! That time Oregon blew up a whale with dynamite.

By Shoshi Parks

an iguana with blue and green scales

Endangered Species

10 vulnerable wildlife species to watch in 2026

By Laura Baisas

three side by side images of a large jellyfish in a deep sea canyon

Giant phantom jellyfish spotted deep in Pacific

By Laura Baisas

Close up of Greenland shark with copepod attached to eye

Dissected Greenland shark eyeballs could help humans see forever

an elk with horns in the wood

New wildlife cam features 800-pound elk in northern Michigan

By Laura Baisas

A fluffy beavers sits in front of a fallen tree branch with yellow leaves.

Idaho once dropped 76 beavers from airplanes—on purpose

By Jennifer Byrne

African penguin chick close-up

Aquarium welcomes third endangered penguin chick in less than a month

a cave painting of two warty pigs

Pigs have been island hopping for 50,000 years

By Laura Baisas

a yellow flag with a coiled rattle snake and the words "dont tread on me"Gadsden Flag, Vikkram, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.

How the timber rattlesnake became a symbol of American independence

By Laura Baisas

Close up of yellow banana slug

An ode to slugs, the mascots of post-holiday laziness