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Water Bug Dads Glue 150 Eggs to Their Backs, Then Do Press-Ups
A male giant water bug spends days performing underwater press-ups with 150 eggs glued to his back, but before he…
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These Beetles Turn Dead Animals into Carefully Prepared Nurseries
Burying beetles spray corpses with fluid from their mouths and anuses, roll them into balls, and drag them underground, but…
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Uniting for Animals: How Global Movements Are Changing Wildlife Conservation and Animal Welfare
From majority-female anti-poaching units patrolling South African reserves to scientists eavesdropping on deep-diving whales, animal welfare is being transformed in…
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This Queenless Ant Permanently Stops Its Rivals From Reproducing
In one ant species, a single female holds absolute reproductive power over her entire colony through a brutal act performed…
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A Wastewater Hormone Turns Male Fish Into Worse Fathers
Synthetic estrogen flushed into waterways is doing something unexpected to male fish, and the consequences ripple far beyond a single…
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These Wingless Ants Fall 100 Feet — and Glide Right Back
Wingless and seemingly at the mercy of gravity, certain tree-dwelling ants have cracked a survival problem that stumped researchers for…
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This Spiny Rat Drops Its Tail and Runs Like a Rabbit
Forget the jump-attacking city rat. Deep in Central American rainforests lives a rodent covered in backward-pointing spines, and scientists think…
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653 Endangered Frogs Are Back in California’s Burned Mountains
Wildfires torched the last strongholds of one of California's most critically endangered frogs, leaving scientists scrambling to prevent its total…
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Thinking of a Rabbit for Your Kid? Read This First
Rabbits are the third most surrendered animal to shelters in the US, yet millions of families still bring them home…
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Gentle Giants at the Brink: Understanding Gorillas and the Fight to Protect Their Rainforest Homes
Gorillas share 99 percent of our DNA, use tools, mourn their dead, and can even reflect on the past, yet…
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The Only Lizard on Earth That Feeds in the Ocean
A lizard that hunts underwater, basks on volcanic rock, and survives disaster through a biological trick that scientists still find…
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The Chocolate Chip Loaf-Looking Creature That Has No Brain
It looks like a loaf of chocolate chip cookie dough resting on the ocean floor, but this strange Atlantic creature…
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Does a Foot-Long Centipede Really Hunt Bats? Here’s the Evidence
Sensational headlines accuse the Amazonian giant centipede of hunting bats, killing children, and feasting on corpses. The science behind these…
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Drowning in Plastic: How Ocean Debris Choke Wildlife and What You Can Do About It
A single whale stomach held 88 pounds of plastic bags, rice sacks, and packaging, yet ocean wildlife faces threats far…
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Arctic Shorebirds Begin Arriving in Australia After Epic Global Flights
Every year, flocks of shorebirds descend on Australia's coastlines after crossing entire hemispheres, some without stopping once. The habitats waiting…
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Hundreds of Deadly Cobras Share This Tiny Island With Fishermen
On a tiny island in Lake Victoria, a community of fishermen lives side by side with nearly a thousand deadly…
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This Australian Bird Builds a Giant Incubator Before September
The malleefowl doesn't sit on its eggs like other birds. Instead, it engineers a living, self-heating incubator from scratch and…
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Europe’s Red Deer Begin Their Dramatic Autumn Rut in September
Every September, red deer stags transform into something almost unrecognizable, their bodies surging with hormones as they prepare to roar,…
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Why Did This Vulture Try to Hatch an Empty Snail Shell?
A black vulture in Brazil was caught doing something that left birdwatchers baffled: carefully settling its warm brood patch over…
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The Tiny Tick That Could Threaten a $50 Billion Pork Industry
A tiny tick lurking in animal burrows across the American Southwest could turn a routine disease outbreak into an eradication…
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Queensland’s ‘Vegan Dracula’ Fish Could Be Three Distinct Species
Australia's so-called vegan Dracula fish just turned up nearly a thousand miles from where scientists thought they lived, and researchers…
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These Large Mammals Change the Forest From the Ground Up
Soil scientists long credited plants, worms, and slugs with keeping forest soils fertile, but a 14-year experiment deep in Brazil's…
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The Alpine Ibex Leaps a Deadly Crevice Like an Olympic Jumper
A viral clip shows an Alpine ibex launching itself across a deadly mountain crevice with the power of an Olympic…
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Why Moose Become Surprisingly Active When the September Rut Begins
Every September, something shifts inside the moose of Denali National Park, turning solitary giants into rivals willing to fight for…
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This Rare Fox Was Spotted Outside of Chicago
A fox prowling the suburbs of Chicago is turning heads, and its coat is nothing like what most people expect…
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Why Your Dog Ignores Its Water Bowl, According to Science
Dogs are reactive drinkers, meaning they wait until their bodies hit a critical threshold before seeking water at all. Understanding…
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Five Newly Discovered Wasps Reveal Cyprus’ Hidden Biodiversity
While tourists relaxed on its sun-drenched beaches, Cyprus was quietly harboring secrets that scientists had overlooked for years. A closer…
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Yellowjackets Hunt Garden Pests — Should You Leave Them Alone?
Yellowjackets have a reputation for ruining picnics and delivering painful stings, but their presence in your garden tells a more…
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How an Indigenous Community Found a Way to Protect a Sacred Cockatoo
The salmon-crested cockatoo is sacred to the Huaulu people of Seram Island, yet their ancient initiation ritual once put them…
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How Rotifers Steal Foreign DNA to Repair Their Own Genes
Bdelloid rotifers survive conditions that shred their DNA into pieces, yet they bounce back to life as if nothing happened.…
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Deer Antlers Are Bone. So How Can They Grow So Fast?
Antlers grow faster than almost any other tissue in the animal kingdom, yet they are made of solid bone. Scientists…
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Why Are Vultures Falling From the Sky?
Sailors off the coast of Florida pulled off something remarkable when they spotted more than a hundred vultures sprawled across…
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What a Rabid Animal Actually Looks Like
Foaming at the mouth and acting crazy sounds obvious enough, but the early signs of rabies in an animal can…
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Inside the Poison Dart Frog Mother’s Daily Meal Drops
The strawberry poison dart frog raises its young scattered across dozens of tiny rainforest pools, but keeping each tadpole alive…
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Flesh-Eating Screwworm Is Back in the U.S. and Scientists Are Tracking Its Spread
A flesh-eating parasite that burrows into living tissue has shown up in the US again, and scientists are racing to…
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The ‘Tree Lobster’ Was Thought Extinct. Now It Could Return Home
Declared extinct after rats wiped out every last one, the Lord Howe Island stick insect pulled off one of nature's…
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Why the Flamboyant Cuttlefish Gave Up Swimming
Most cuttlefish drift through the ocean with effortless grace, but one species ditched swimming entirely in favor of something far…
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Birdsong Study Suggests Nature Sounds Can Meaningfully Reduce Human Stress
Scientists planted a volunteer group in the middle of a college campus and a restored urban forest, then piped competing…
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Why Capuchin Monkeys Crush Millipedes to Fight Mosquitoes
Capuchin monkeys have discovered a chemical weapon hiding in the jungle, and it involves biting into a creature that can…
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The Creepy, Vertical Naps of the Deep Ocean’s Giants
Sperm whales sleep in a posture so bizarre it looks like something out of a horror film, floating motionless in…
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London’s Only Naturalized Parrot Looks Like Leaves on a Tree
London's parks hide a secret that squawks back at you: thousands of tropical birds now claim the city as home.…
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Ever Wondered What Baby Porcupines Sound Like?
Baby porcupines, called porcupettes, produce sounds so eerily similar to a human newborn that hearing them for the first time…
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Watch These Stunned Fishermen Haul in a Huge Shark the Length of an Elephant
A deep-water fishing trip off the Bahamas turned into something far beyond a typical catch when an absolute monster rose…
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How (and Why) Do Kangaroos Move Their Ears?
Kangaroo ears do far more than just listen, and understanding what drives their constant swiveling reveals just how much danger…
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The Real Reason Woodcocks Do That Hypnotic Rocking Walk
American woodcocks perform a peculiar, rhythmic rocking walk that has puzzled scientists for decades, and the leading theories are stranger…
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Tiny Tree Snails Make Historic Comeback 40 Years After Vanishing in Moorea
For four decades, a tiny tree snail vanished entirely from the wild islands of French Polynesia, surviving only in the…
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Is a Venus Flytrap a Plant or an Animal?
A plant that snaps its jaws shut, digests its prey with acid, and hunts insects challenges everything we think we…
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The Wasp Disguised as an Ant with 5 Layers of Defense
Female velvet ants roam exposed ground for hours, seemingly defenseless without wings, yet predators almost universally refuse to eat them.…
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Which Insects Die After Stinging You, and Which Can Sting Again?
Not all stinging insects play by the same rules, and the difference between a one-and-done sting versus a relentless repeated…
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The Soil Fungus That’s Threatening Snow Leopards — and Humans
A California big cat sanctuary is on high alert after a deadly soil fungus claimed a lion and now threatens…