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Does Owning A Cat Make You Happier? A 93-Country Study Found A Surprising Link
A sweeping study across 93 nations found an unexpected connection between cat ownership and how happy a country reports being,…
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Lost for 140 Years: The “Mythical Bird” Caught on Camera at Last
For 140 years, a ground-dwelling bird known to islanders as the Auwo vanished so completely that scientists began to wonder…
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Hawaii’s 1955 Fix For A Snail Problem Backfired, And It Took 70 Years To Start Undoing It
Hawaii brought in a predator snail to save its crops, and the plan worked exactly as designed until it didn't.…
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Utah Pulled One Invasive Fish Out Of A River, And A Native Species Rebounded In 6 Years
For a decade, researchers watched a native Utah trout lose ground in its own river before deciding that saving it…
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Green Bay Went 70 Years Without A Nesting Plover, Now 4 Pairs Return There Every Year
A shorebird that nearly vanished from the Great Lakes stopped showing up at Green Bay for over seven decades, so…
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A Miami Bay Just 6 Feet Deep Was Named A Critical Refuge For 13 Shark And Ray Species
A bay overlooked by condo towers and boat traffic hides something researchers spent nearly a decade trying to prove: that…
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Ohio Just Confirmed Its First Armadillo That Didn’t Hitch A Ride To Get There
Armadillos have been creeping steadily northward for over a century, but getting to Ohio required something earlier roadkill discoveries never…
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Kazakhstan Hasn’t Seen A Wild Horse Foal Born In 200 Years, Until Botai And Tumar Arrived
For the first time in two centuries, Przewalski's horses are being born on the Kazakh steppe, but whether these foals…
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They Call it the World’s Most Dangerous Bird, and Yet it Does the Gardening
Standing nearly six feet tall with a dagger-tipped foot and a reputation for ferocity, the southern cassowary seems built for…
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Up To 1,000 Elephants Climb A Tanzania Mountain, And A New Corridor Just Recorded 529 Of Them
Every year, hundreds of elephants tackle a 6,500-foot mountain in Tanzania, but for decades a shrinking valley stood between them…
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Hunters Chased This Alligator For 4 Years, And At 844 Pounds It’s South Carolina’s 2nd Largest
Cole Poplin spent three or four hunting seasons watching the same enormous alligator cruise through Lake Moultrie, close enough to…
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A Rattlesnake Swam the Length of a Backyard Pool on Hilton Head Island, and It Was Filmed
A massive rattlesnake dropped into a Hilton Head backyard pool and swam straight across it, calm as you please, while…
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A Bird with Unreal Colors Just Turned Up on a Lake in Northern Italy
A duck so vivid it looks hand-painted just appeared on an Italian lake, leaving onlookers questioning whether what they saw…
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World’s Largest Male Great White Shark Discovered: What Scientists Found Left Them Speechless
Off the Atlantic coast, a great white shark pulled onto a research vessel stopped scientists cold and forced them to…
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A Bear Who Nearly Died As A Cub Just Won Fat Bear Week 2026, And His Mother Won It Too
A bear who nearly died from a leg injury as a cub has grown into one of Katmai's largest males,…
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Scientists Thought This Wolf Pack Was Too Inbred To Survive, Here’s What A New Study Found
Park officials gambled that bringing 19 wolves to a struggling island ecosystem would save a pack on the brink of…
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A 42-Foot Whale Carcass Washed Up On An Australian Beach, And Great White Sharks Followed
When a massive humpback whale beached itself near Perth, it set off a chain of events that shut down one…
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A Jaguar Was Caught On Camera In Guatemala, A Sighting Conservationists Call Once In A Decade
Camera traps along a remote forest corridor on the Guatemala-Honduras border just captured something researchers had not confirmed there in…
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A 12-Foot Shark Got Stuck In A South Korean Canal, And 600,000 People Came To See It
A bronze whaler shark swam into a narrow canal in Busan and refused to leave, drawing massive crowds to the…
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Florida’s Cottonmouths May Be Leaving The Swamp, And A Rerun Of A 2005 Survey Hints Why
Biologists at a Florida research station are rerunning a 20-year-old snake survey trap by trap, and what they are finding…
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Your Instinct When a Wasp Comes Close is the Exact Thing That Makes it Worse
As summer winds down in the Pacific Northwest, the region's residents are noticing more than just the changing leaves. Yellowjackets…
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If Your Cat Goes Outside, It May Be Hitting Local Wildlife Harder Than Any Wild Predator
Researchers strapped GPS trackers on 925 pet cats across six countries and discovered something that changes the calculus for every…
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Up To 19 Grizzlies Fed On One Carcass Near Yellowstone, And Not A Single Fight Broke Out
A Sunday drive through Yellowstone country turned into something Janet Zaloga never expected: a carcass surrounded by so many grizzlies…
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A Family Fed A ‘Stray Kitten’ Noodles And Rice For A Year. It Was A New Cat Species
A Bolivian family spent a year feeding noodles and rice to what they assumed was someone's lost housecat. What a…
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Researchers Call It the Ghost Cat, and It Took 3 Years of Waiting to Film It
High in the Andes, a seldom-seen wild cat recently made a rare appearance. Years of patience, well-placed camera traps, and…
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A 12-Foot Saltwater Crocodile Traveled 367 Miles At Sea In 25 Days By Riding Ocean Currents
Saltwater crocodiles are notoriously poor swimmers, yet they somehow colonized island chains scattered across thousands of miles of open ocean.…
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The ‘Fish-Prawn’ Filmed Walking Backwards In The Deep Sea Is Not Actually A Hybrid
A fish with shrimp-like legs was caught on camera doing something no fish had ever been documented doing before, deep…
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300 Bison Were Released In Oklahoma In 1993, And Now More Than 2,000 Roam The Prairie
A century after bison were hunted to near extinction across the Great Plains, scientists are discovering that nothing else restores…
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How Long a Dog Takes to Ask You for Help Says a Lot About its Intelligence
Researchers have been looking for ways to measure how smart different dog breeds can be. In recent studies, scientists put…
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An Octopus Clung To A Dolphin’s Fin Off England, In The Biggest Octopus Boom In 75 Years
A wildlife photographer spotted something strange clinging to a Risso's dolphin off the Devon coast, and marine scientists say the…
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Three Wild Dog Brothers Traveled 2,564 Miles Across Zambia, A Record For An African Mammal
Three wild dog brothers slipped past highways, cities, and rival packs on a nine-month trek across Zambia that shattered every…
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Utah Moved 47 ‘Nuisance’ Beavers To A Desert River, And Only About A Quarter Stayed
Wildlife managers trucked dozens of so-called nuisance beavers into two of Utah's most parched and degraded desert rivers, betting the…
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A researcher says her cuttlefish recognize her after years of contact
Marine biologist Alex Schnell has spent her career probing the inner lives of cephalopods, and what she has found in…
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A Trawler Hauled Up A Blue Fish In 1938 That Science Believed Extinct For 65 Million Years
When a South African trawler captain called his museum curator friend to look over an unusual catch in 1938, neither…
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Banner Health Says Arizona Rattlesnake Bites Happen At Home, Not On Trails, And Here’s Where
Walter Martin reached around a shelf in his own shop and felt the sting before he ever heard the rattle.…
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The Greenland Shark May Live Nearly 400 Years, And It Doesn’t Reach Adulthood Until Around 150
Scientists have long suspected Greenland sharks outlive every other vertebrate on Earth, but a new genetic study is asking a…
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This innocent pet release could spark an environmental disaster, here’s why it matters
A goldfish slipped into a neighborhood pond might seem like a small act of kindness, but scientists say that single…
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This Dolphin Chases Fish Until They Vomit, Then Eats The Meal: A First For Any Cetacean
A wild bottlenose dolphin in Australia has developed a foraging trick so strange that researchers spent four years making sure…
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A Mountain Lion Was Confirmed In Southern Illinois, A State That Lost Them Before 1870
A landowner near the Big Muddy River spotted something Illinois wildlife officials had confirmed only a handful of times in…
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A Wyoming Ranch Dog Brought Home A Strange Carcass In 1981: It Was A Species Presumed Extinct
A Wyoming ranch dog dragged home a small masked carcass one September night, and the local taxidermist took one look…
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Hikers Spotted 3 Stranded ‘Dinosaur Fish’ In A Michigan River, And Rescuers Found 27
A phone call to a poaching hotline set off something no one expected, pulling crews deep into the Michigan wilderness…
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A Bobcat Attacked The World’s Largest Rattlesnake, And 38 Camera Trap Photos Show How
A bobcat squared off against the world's largest rattlesnake species, and a camera trap captured every move across 38 frames.…
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Bears Have Entered More Than 60 Connecticut Homes This Year, And Fall Is Raising The Risk
Connecticut bears are entering homes at a rate that baffles wildlife officials and dwarfs what neighboring states report, and fall…
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Why A 700-Pound Elk Named Smash Keeps Charging Trucks And Golf Carts In Estes Park
A 700-pound bull elk in Estes Park has been on a tear this fall, going after trucks and golf carts…
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Only 6 Venomous Sea Snakes Were Ever Found In California, And 5 Came During El Niño
A venomous tropical sea snake just turned up on a Southern California beach, and scientists say the timing was entirely…
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A Florida Homeowner Found 64 Baby Sea Turtles Swimming in the Backyard Pool
A Florida family stepped outside one morning to find their backyard pool full of something far stranger than leaves or…
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California Wants $60 Million to Stop a Tiny Invader Threatening Its Waterways
A tiny mussel showed up near Stockton in late 2024 and blanketed California within 15 months, and now lawmakers are…
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A Boy Brought Home What He Thought Was a Lost Puppy, and the Vet Had News for Him
Levi carried the injured creature home convinced he was saving a lost puppy, but one look from the vet stopped…
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The World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing Finally Has an Opening Date in California
For decades, mountain lions and bobcats in Southern California have been cut off from each other by one of the…
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18 Months Apart, a Retired Military Dog and His Handler Finally Saw Each Other Again
A retired military dog left behind in South Korea faced an uncertain future, while the handler who knew him best…