Writer for A-Z Animals

Jessica Tucker

Jessica is a features writer for A-Z Animals. She holds a BS from San Diego State University in Television, Film & New Media, as well as a BA from Sonoma State University. Jessica has been writing for various publications since 2019. As an avid animal lover, Jessica does her best to bring to light the plight of endangered species and other animals in need of conservation so that they will be here for generations to come. When not writing, Jessica enjoys beach days with her dog, lazy days with her cats, and all days with her two incredible kiddos.

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Jessica Tucker

Articles by Jessica Tucker

Horse-Sized Saber-Tooth Lived Millions of Years Past Its Deadline

Lesser Scaup Ducks Were Too Common to Study. Then Half Vanished

Mountain Lions Cut Deer Crashes 67% and 30 States Hunt Them

16,000 Whales Swarm Greenland Waters That Were Once Locked in Ice

Seen Just 8 Times in 65 Years, Rare Bird Lands in Irvine

New River Gorge’s Bats Vanish at Night, but Phones Are Finding Them

Never Let Your Dog Chase the Cat ‘Just Once’

Rabbit-Sized Bettongs Are Back, and They Shrink Bushfires

A Dog Named Shep Saved This Species from Extinction in 1981

Your Dog’s Ear Infection Returns Because the Allergy Was Never Treated

A New Salish Sea Spider Is So Grimy It Hosts Its Own Ecosystem

Snorkeling in Bali Helped Wreck Its Reefs, but the Right Kind Could Help Save Them

Hunting Gets the Blame for Madagascar’s Lost Giant Lemurs, but Cattle May Have Mattered More

Bears Entered 60 Homes in the One State That Won’t Hunt Them

Orphaned at Birth, This Naked Rabbit Was Raised by a Chinchilla

Sea Turtle Makes History with First Known West Coast Nests

Meet the ‘Mad Hatterpillar’ That Wears a Tower of Its Old Heads

This Caterpillar Wears Dead Bugs to Rob Spiders in Their Webs

Scientists Found an Ant That Escapes by Rolling Like a Pinball

Amazon Ants Build Booby Traps, Then Wait Inside with Open Jaws

Asia’s Wild Pigs Are Vanishing

Some Chimp Mothers Carry Their Deceased Infants Until They Mummify

He Took in a Baby Egg-Eating Snake — She Was a New Species

A Snail’s Size Reveals How Many Cyclones It Outlived

Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Birds Hundreds of Miles from Flames

Spider Webs Just Revealed 85 Animals No One Ever Saw

700,000 Turtles Stormed One Beach in India’s Biggest Nesting Year

Trashed DNA Just Revealed 2 Lost Galápagos Tortoise Lineages

After 529 Releases, Zoo New England Stopped. The Salamanders Stayed.

These British Sharks Eat Each Other — Now Scientists Are Watching

Why This Ghostly White Shark Isn’t Actually an Albino

Swimming in South Dakota? These 5 Lakes Have Leeches

The Only Parrot on Earth That Hunts Sheep at Night

No, This 4-Foot-Tall Chicken Isn’t AI

This Wasp Buries 60 Living Horseflies to Feed Its Young

Wendy the Coyote Is Safe — But What’s Wrong with Her Face?

Bears Aren’t Hungriest After Hibernation — They’re Hungriest Now

Why Entire Kelp Forests Vanish When Sea Otters Disappear

This Newly Found Spider Lives in One Idaho Forest and Nowhere Else

Elephants Grieve for Decades — and Never Forget Where Their Loved Ones Died

Typhoon Maysak Burst a Dam — and 900 Snakes Washed into Villages

Monarch Butterflies Fly 3,000 Miles to a Place They’ve Never Seen

Not Just Butterflies: Millions of Dragonflies Migrate in September

Humpback Whales Swim 6,200 Miles Without Eating a Single Meal

The 5,000-Mile Algae Belt Choking Key West Beaches

Why Oysters Carrying Deadly Gulf Bacteria Never Get Sick

A Barn Owl Appeared 70 Miles out at Sea — Soldiers Saved Him

How the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Liquefies Living Coral

How a Two-Inch Shrimp Kills Prey It Never Has to Touch

Parents Are Feeding Chicks Plastic — and Don’t Know It