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An Apex Predator Comeback Is Creating a New Risk for These Penguins
Along South America’s windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth…
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Along South America’s windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth…
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Imagine walking through a rainforest and catching the smell of buttered popcorn. You are nowhere near a snack stand, yet…
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Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them…
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For the first time in roughly six centuries, London’s skies may again carry the long, steady wings of the white…
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Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a…
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Walk through an Australian eucalyptus forest and a sharp, minty smell may drift through the air. Eucalyptus leaves release aromatic…
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Imagine encountering a crocodile so rare that scientists once believed it no longer existed in the wild. This is the…
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Few animals depend on timing as tightly as the kākāpō. This flightless parrot is found only on a few predator-free…
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Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior…
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Standing at the rail of a large cruise ship at sunset, the scene can feel simple: metal, water, and sky.…
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The Disease Bridge: How Our Cities Are Inviting Wildlife Viruses In As suburbs expand into forests, grasslands, and wetlands, the…
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Imagine walking into a courtroom and seeing a cage near the witness stand. Inside sits a bright, alert parrot whose…
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Picture this. Someone tells you they own a full-grown bear. Odds are your first thought is not “Oh, how wonderful!”…
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Quick Take Picking up a live electric wire and swinging it around sounds like a terrible idea. For the blanket…
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Feral pigs make effective movie villains because they already carry an unsettling reputation. In the horror-comedy film Send Help, released…
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Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open…
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Colorado’s new State Wildlife Action Plan, approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in January 2026, provides a 10-year…
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Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill…
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Each year on February 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic’s most powerful predators, the…
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In the summer of 2021, a woman in the Atlanta area was forced to surrender her pet serval, a medium-sized…
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When I was growing up, my grandparents’ farm had a fence post that housed eastern bluebirds. These gorgeous little birds…
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For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in…
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The Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life recently welcomed a new male polar bear named Kali through a coordinated animal…
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For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that…
Every year, Nebraska’s Platte River becomes a corridor of motion and sound as sandhill cranes arrive from the south. By…
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From childhood, we grow up reading stories and watching films that portray wild animals as friendly and lovable characters. Social…
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When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident…
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Wild hamsters might sound like a cartoon concept, but they are real animals that live across large parts of Europe…
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Cooperative hunting across species lines is rare, but on coral reefs, octopuses sometimes make it work. That does not mean…
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Visiting a zoo or wildlife park, most people expect to see lions, crocodiles, or perhaps a noisy parrot. Few expect…
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In October 2025, a truck transporting 21 rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Several of the…
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Wildlife crime may sound like something that happens far away in dense jungles or on the high seas, but it…
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Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them…
The “Tool-Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from…
Cold snaps in subtropical regions can create strange scenes. In places like South Florida, a sudden temperature drop can leave…
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Alabama’s exotic pet laws are stricter and more fragmented than many people expect. Instead of maintaining a single, comprehensive list…
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Quick Take North Carolina regulates exotic animals differently from many other states. Instead of relying on a single statewide law…
Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only…
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Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly…
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Quick Take When Acupuncture Meets Elephant Medicine Acupuncture is no longer confined to human clinics. In recent years, it has…
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Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only…
The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far beyond…
Finding a suitable winter den can determine whether a bear survives months of cold, deep snow, and food scarcity. For…
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Tennessee’s exotic pet laws can be confusing for anyone considering owning an animal more unusual than a Chihuahua or a…
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Underneath the freezing chop of Rhode Island’s winter shoreline, a 250-pound predator is holding its breath. For more than twenty…
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Coyotes are often described as adaptable survivors that thrive wherever humans live. That description, while accurate, leaves out an important…
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Every January 20, Penguin Awareness Day encourages people far from the Southern Ocean to reflect on birds they may never…
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On a cold late winter night, a sudden chorus of high-pitched howls can haunt a quiet neighborhood. Those sounds often…
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Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird in 1961 because lawmakers and bird experts agreed that no other…
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The first time I saw a coyote, I was a college student and an inexperienced driver. Driving a heavily wooded…