286 Results From "marine mammal"

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge
Wildlife

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge

By Lauren Steele

seal
Evolution

Otters are too small, whales are too big, and seals are just right

By Sara Chodosh

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies
Animals

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies

By Sara Chodosh

drone
Drones

25 Reasons To Love Drones

By Popular Science Team

a sea otter
Animals

A blindfolded sea otter named Selka shows how the critters find food in murky water

By Kat Eschner

Dugong
Endangered Species

Local knowledge can save endangered animals

By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Benjamin L. Jones, and Richard K.F. Unsworth/The Conversation

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about
Evolution

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

By Rachel Feltman

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme
Climate Change

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

By Marlene Cimons

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber
Engineering

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

By Josh Dean

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time
Ocean

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time

By Kate Baggaley

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)
Science

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

By Sara Chodosh

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time
Animals

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time

By Amelia Urry

Fake Bears
Bears

Ranking the Types of Bear Species

By Dan Nosowitz

The deadliest animals in America, ranked
Animals

The deadliest animals in America, ranked

By Erin Blakemore

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard
Spiders

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard

By Kate Baggaley

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about
Animals

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about

By Sara Chodosh

Gray seals are making a huge comeback
Animals

Gray seals are making a huge comeback

By Sarah Fecht

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.
Whales

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Bottlenose dolphin
Ocean

Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of horrifying

By Sara Chodosh

To save endangered whales, look to the poop
Endangered Species

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

By Kate Baggaley

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large brown bear with broken jaw
Bears

Big boy Chunk returns ahead of Fat Bear Week 2026

By Popular Science Team

Concept art of big bang showing explosion in space-time grid launch galaxies out into the universe
Particle Physics

68% of physicists don’t think the time started at the big bang

By Andrew Paul

Raccoon in tree looking at camera
Land

It’s almost time to airdrop rabies vaccines again

By Andrew Paul

WWII bomb on sand
Military

World War II shell detonated on British Coast 

By Margherita Bassi