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A red tide devastated Florida marine life for 16 months. Why?

A red tide devastated Florida marine life for 16 months. Why?

By Mallory Pickett

Dinosaur extinction is an unsolved mystery. This ancient fish may have swallowed some crucial evidence.

Dinosaur extinction is an unsolved mystery. This ancient fish may have swallowed some crucial evidence.

By Neel V. Patel

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Watch ‘giant pill bugs’ burrow inside this alligator carcass for legitimate scientific reasons

Watch ‘giant pill bugs’ burrow inside this alligator carcass for legitimate scientific reasons

By Sara Chodosh

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything

By Jessica Boddy

Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems

Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems

By Sara Kiley Watson

The fate of future endangered species could hinge on a semantic argument

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The fate of future endangered species could hinge on a semantic argument

Can industrial farming be a force for good?

Can industrial farming be a force for good?

By Ted Genoways

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right

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

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

By Lauren Steele

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

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

By Sara Chodosh

25 Reasons To Love Drones

By Popular Science Team

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

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Local knowledge can save endangered animals

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

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

By Marlene Cimons

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

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

By Rachel Feltman

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

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

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

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

By Sara Chodosh

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

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

By Kate Baggaley

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Painting of a woman in white with a demon sitting on her chest and a ghostly horse to the left.

The creepy science behind sleep paralysis ‘demons’

By RJ Mackenzie

Close up photo of trapdoor spider named after Stephen Colber

Spider named after Stephen Colbert has twice as many chromosomes as you

a touchscreen fabric

Touchscreen shirt shows photos, plays videos, and answers calls

By Mack DeGeurin

Dog paw imprint on piece of Bronze Age mudbrick wall

Dog’s paw print found in a 3,700-year-old brick