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A photograph of an orange apartment building balcony featuring two large white banners attached to the railing. The front-facing banner displays the text "IS COMING SOON..." in a grey stencil-style font, flanked on the left by a grey graphic of a gas mask with liquid dripping from its eye lenses. A second, identical gas mask graphic is visible on the side banner.

Prepping for a disaster? You’ll probably want to pack a little treat.

By Frida Garza / Grist

An argentine ant is farming aphids on a young leaf.

Vicious invasive ants form gigantic supercolonies

A mosquito encased in yellow-hued amber.

Millions of years ago, male mosquitoes may have been blood suckers too

By Laura Baisas

an orange, black, and white monarch butterfly on a pink milkweed flower

How everyone can help monarch butterflies

By Laura Baisas

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

The ‘disco’ gene could help moths tell time

By Laura Baisas

By examining pollen grains clinging to the bodies of painted lady butterflies (one shown above), scientists have traced the insect’s multigenerational migration across several continents.

The secrets of butterfly migration, written in pollen

By Saugat Bolakhe / Knowable Magazine

a blue lobster in an aquarium tank

Why blue animals are so rare in nature

By Laura Baisas

Vibrant Blue-Throated Bird Perched on a Branch with Open Beak.

The lucrative bird-singing contests that are pushing species to the brink

By Sandy Ong / Knowable Magazine

A bee on a peach rose. Understanding how flowering plants and bees evolved together can help inform conservation efforts for pollinators and how to keep their populations healthy.

The world’s earliest bees may have called Gondwana home

By Laura Baisas

Water skimmer inspired robot atop water

These micro-robots were inspired by mini-bugs and water striders

Bumblebee pollinator over red and orange flowers

Microscopic worms use electricity to ride bumblebees like EVs

By Laura Baisas

A carnivorous Sarracenia plant growing in the wild.

Carnivorous pitcher plants may use tempting aromas to lure prey to their death

By Laura Baisas

A mother and calf humpback whale swim underwater.

Close to half of migratory species are in serious decline: UN report

By Laura Baisas

A bunch of wet blueberries.

Why blueberries aren’t technically blue

By Laura Baisas

Fire in a forest

Fire is driving animals’ evolution

By Kylie Mohr / High Country News

To protect wild bumblebees, people have to find them first

To protect wild bumblebees, people have to find them first

By Sarah Trent / High Country News

A deceased blue tit is being held in a womans hand

More than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year in US

By Lauren Leffer

Environmental DNA is everywhere. Scientists are gathering it all.

Environmental DNA is everywhere. Scientists are gathering it all.

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

By Laura Baisas

Several blooming yellow sunflowers under a blue sky with white clouds.

We still don’t fully know how sunflowers turn toward the sun

By Laura Baisas

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L - R, Sergeants Clarence Beavers, James Kornegay, Ned Bess, Corporal Elijah Wesby and Sergeant Alvin Moon of the United States Army All African American 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (nicknamed the "Triple Nickles" because of its numerical designation) aim their M3 .45-caliber submachine guns, commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" during a training exercise at Fort Benning circa February 1944 at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. These five soldiers were part of the original 17 member selection that succeeded in becoming the first All African American parachute infantry battalion. In early 1945 the battalion were sent to Camp Pendleton in Oregon and assigned to the 9th Services Command, trained by the U.S. Forest Service, and became history's first military airborne firefighting smokejumpers. (Photo by INP/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

National Park Service names 10 new American World War II Heritage cities

Artist's depiction of White Sands in New Mexico as it existed during the last ice age. At the time, it was marshy and colder, and populated by mammoths, giant sloths, and humans

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North America’s oldest human footprints tell a tale of ice age chaos

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Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

By Margherita Bassi

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Your eyes dilate depending on your thoughts