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Broken T. Rex Tooth Frozen in Prey’s Skull Solves Ancient Mystery
A skull pulled from the badlands of Montana sat in a museum collection for decades before researchers realized it held…
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The Beetle Hunter Who Found 339 New Species in a Year
A Clemson entomologist took a year off from teaching and came back with a discovery so enormous it rewrote what…
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The Spotted Skunk That Does Handstands Is Now Under Federal Review
The plains spotted skunk does handstands to scare off predators, yet scientists have struggled for decades to even confirm where…
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Stop Putting Urine on Jellyfish Stings, It Makes Them Worse
That dramatic beach story about urinating on a jellyfish sting gets retold as wisdom, but scientists have found most folk…
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How Conflict Turned Shrinking Lake Chad into a Bird Refuge
A lake that has lost 90% of its water, endured decades of violent conflict, and hosted aerial bombardments seems like…
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The Common Perch That Gives Parakeets Bumblefoot
That simple wooden dowel perch inside your parakeet's cage might look harmless, but it quietly sets the stage for a…
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Before You Spot a Leech, It Has Already Found You
Leeches seem to materialize out of nowhere, latching on before you ever notice them lurking. The biological toolkit they use…
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Why Neighboring Poison Frogs Sound Nothing Like Each Other
Poison frogs living just a few miles apart along a Colombian river sound nothing alike, and the reason goes far…
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The Biological Reason Chew Toys Are Essential for Rabbits
A rabbit's teeth never stop growing, and without the right outlet, that relentless biological drive can spiral into painful health…
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Snake Charming’s Biggest Secret
For centuries, snake charmers have held audiences spellbound with nothing but a haunting flute and a rising cobra. The real…
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The River Giant That Inspired Monster Legends Is Vanishing Fast
Sturgeon have roamed rivers largely unchanged since the age of dinosaurs, growing large enough to fuel monster legends across continents.…
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Do More Birds Cause More Plane Strikes? Now We Have Proof
Birds and planes have shared the sky for over a century, but the science behind keeping them apart has lagged…
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How Neil the Seal Became Tasmania’s Most Beloved Troublemaker
A five-year-old southern elephant seal has turned southeast Tasmania into his personal playground, charming millions of fans while terrifying wildlife…
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How Summer Heat Sends Walleyes on a Midnight Hunt
While your family winds down at the lake house, something shifts beneath that glassy summer surface. The fish you never…
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Moths Don’t Circle Lights — They’ve Lost Track of the Sky
For centuries, scientists assumed moths spiraled toward flames out of simple attraction, but new high-speed footage from two continents reveals…
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A Dusty Museum Drawer Hid a 5-Million-Year-Old Secret
A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to…
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Monkeys Stormed a Police Station After 100 Escaped in Lopburi
Over 100 macaques broke free from a Thai municipal enclosure overnight and stormed through a city already at war with…
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The Truth About Where Bats Go When the Sun Comes Up
Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime…
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This Tiny Fish Eats 100 Mosquito Larvae a Day for Free
Mosquitoes ruin summers and spread disease, but something small and overlooked in your local pond has been waging war on…
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The Real Story Behind That Viral Goat at a Punk Show
A retired dairy goat crashed the front row of a grindcore concert in rural France, and the photos quietly broke…
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62,000 Viewers Are Hooked on This NC Barn Owl Drama
Tens of thousands of viewers have fallen completely captivated by a North Carolina barn owl family, but the nest cam…
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Colorado Moose See Your Dog as a Wolf — and Then Attack
A peaceful hike through the Colorado woods turned into a terrifying ordeal when a moose decided a family's dogs looked…
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That Viral ‘Too Cute’ Elephant Is Likely AI, but the Real One Is Just as Adorable
A baby elephant with impossibly round proportions and stubby legs took social media by storm, but something about it feels…
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This Summer’s Shark Sightings Mapped After Child Bitten in Knee-Deep Water
Sharks are moving closer to US shores this summer, and a child bitten in knee-deep water is just one of…
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Hermit Crabs Don’t Eat Less to Stay Small, They Poop More
Hermit crabs have a bizarre trick for squeezing into shells that seem impossibly small, and scientists just figured out the…
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Grandfather Battles Bear with Makeshift Spear to Protect Goat
When Joe Reda heard a strange squeal coming from his shed, he grabbed a shovel and went to investigate. What…
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Why Do Deadly Viruses Spare Mosquitoes? Science Has an Answer
Mosquitoes carry some of the world's deadliest viruses, biting victim after victim for their entire lives without ever getting sick…
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Rabid Bats Are Spreading Through Ohio. Here’s How to Stay Safe.
Four rabid bats have turned up in one Ohio county within a single month, and health officials are sounding the…
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The Vanished Rabbit-Rat That Triggered Australia’s Extinction Crisis
When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit…
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The Coqui Frog’s Risky Survival Bet: Grow Fast or Fight Disease
There are false notions out there regarding the limits of physiological processes. For years, some people have circulated the idea…
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A Shark That Walks on Land Was Just Found Completely by Accident
Normally, when the discovery of a new species hits the headlines, it involves splitting taxonomic hairs between previously established species.…
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Inside the Screwworm Crackdown, from AI Drones to Entry Permits
Farmers were dreading it, health authorities were awaiting it, and the general populace had no real idea of its approach…
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Florida Is Paying Participants $25,000 to Hunt Everglades Pythons This July
Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and capturing…
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New Tool Gives 3-Month Warning Before Heat Kills Endangered Animals
What if scientists could not only track heat waves but also predict when they would threaten thousands of species? A…
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The Exact Ocean Spot Where Humpback Whales Give Birth
Just like us, humpback whales have their preferences. They are incredibly intelligent creatures, with brains that can weigh up to…
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The Locust Plague That Covered 198,000 Square Miles Then Vanished
Sometimes, what seems like an impending disaster can become an afterthought in the blink of an eye. Surprisingly, it’s often…
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8 Undiscovered Moth Species Were Hiding in One for 200 Years
The notion of species may underpin almost every aspect of biology, yet scientists can’t agree on a single definition. Time…
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When Wasps Lose Their Queen, a Secret Group Saves the Colony
For some species, war seems inevitable. When a community loses a powerful leader, it creates a power vacuum. This lack…
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Octopuses Use Mirrors to Map Space Like Primates and Dolphins
If you were to make a case for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, you would probably use octopuses as…
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Nearly 90% of U.S. Bed Bugs Resist Pesticides. Pack Carefully This Summer.
When people talk about tenacious, seemingly unkillable pests, the mind immediately goes to cockroaches. After all, their reputation precedes them:…
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The Self-Cloning Tick That Can Copy Itself 2,000 Times
Longhorn cattle have long symbolized the American West, strength, and resilience. A new type of longhorn, however, has entered the…
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The Only Fossil of Its Kind May Reveal How Animals First Left the Sea
Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science…
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Inside the Stanley Pup, The Star-Studded, Hockey-Themed Event Saving Shelter Pets
The Stanley Cup is the biggest event in professional hockey. It routinely gets millions of viewers a year, and the…
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Spotted a Turtle on the Road? Experts Say Do This First
As temperatures rise, the turtle nesting season is beginning. There are several hundred species of turtles, but many of them…
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A ‘Bear-Dog’ That’s Neither: New Species Found in Spain
It’s a bear, it’s a dog, it’s… neither? One can imagine a paleontologist thinking this upon first discovering members of…
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Jackson Hole Shouldn’t Have Wildlife on Its Busiest Trails, but It Does
The 21st century has seen a worldwide reappraisal of the relationship between human beings and the animal kingdom. Human progress…
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The Bird That Wraps Its Tongue Around Its Skull to Hunt Ants
Aside from perhaps experiencing a tidal wave a hundred feet high crashing onto a city, there is likely nothing in…
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Meet Rio, the First Panda Born Outside China in 3 Years
A rare event is about to take place at Indonesia’s Taman Safari Zoo: for the first time in three years,…
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Ghost Shark or Rabbitfish? The Strange Truth About Chimaeras
In Ancient Greek mythology, the chimera was a monstrous creature. It was a mishmash of different animals, some of which…
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A Live Fish Is Writhing Inside This Bird’s Neck
Have you ever been so hungry that you didn’t even stop to chew your food, instead gulping it down as…