Stories from the Wild

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This Octopus Walks on Land to Hunt Crabs. Can Others?

When the tide retreats along Australia's northern coast, a small octopus does something its relatives never attempt. What allows this soft-bodied, gill-breathing predator to abandon the ocean and go hunting…

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This Octopus Walks on Land to Hunt Crabs. Can Others?

Black Bear Crashes a Picnic and Gets a Sandwich, How Dangerous is This?

Australia’s Humpbacks Were Nearly Wiped Out, and Now Their Young Grow Faster Than Any Others Measured

Ants Spread Across the Planet, and Jumping Genes May Explain How

A 1,009-Pound Great White Pinged 100 Miles Off the Jersey Shore on Halloween Night

Six Kinds of Ducks Spend Winter Side by Side, Then Head North in Very Different Ways

Trapdoor Spiders Live in Forests, but This New One Builds Its Home Where the Tide Comes In

A 220-Pound Baby Walrus Followed Them Home and Fell Asleep

Losing a Few Species Hurts Nature More Than We Thought, Even When Others Fill In

37 Bird Species Flee Women Sooner Than Men and No One Knows Why

Spiders Were Never Supposed to Dream, but These Just Might

Why 5 Bird Couples Share One Nest and Sabotage Each Other

Rhino Flips a Car Three Times With a Zookeeper Still Inside. What’s His Problem?

Brazen Seagull Walks Into Grocery Store and Steals a Sandwich. Will He Face Charges?

Five Hidden Mussel Species Reveal Secrets of America’s Southern Rivers

More Than 15 Fish Blanketed This Manta Ray, and That’s the Good News

The Crow Decision That Outpaces Your Brain

Man Tells a Massive Brown Bear ‘No,’ and It Actually Sits Down

Move Over Earthworms, Bees Are the New Soil Engineers

Migrating Moths Are Showing Up as Rain on Australia’s Radars

Kentucky Is Sinking Thousands of Christmas Trees into Local Lakes to Save Fish

Scientists Find Two New Armored Water Bears on Atlantic Seamount

Monkey Chugs an Entire Bottle of Soda, But Should It?

Emu Gets Fed Up With Sheep That Won’t Leave It Alone

Octopus Slaps a Fish and Changes Color. Is It a Warning?

Great White Shark Leaps Out of the Water, What is the Purpose of This Behavior?

Coyote Peterson Faces 200 Yellowjackets and Gets Stung a Ton

A Quarter of the DNA in Lion Poop Matched Nothing on Record

Chicago’s Raptors Are Making Themselves at Home on Streetlights and Cell Towers

Why Is This Massive Grizzly Bear Walking Like a Cowboy? Is This Normal?

First U.S. Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Found in Elk

Seeing Red? This Is Why Boxelder Bugs and Asian Lady Beetles Are All Over Your House

Why Is This Bald Eagle Ripping Up the Ground in Alaska?

Are Brown Bears Replacing Black Bears in Southeast Alaska?

The Monarch’s Staggering Collapse, From 380 Million to Just 9,119

People Keep Yelling at an Elephant. Then It Throws a Bundle of Sticks at Them.

This Snake Doesn’t Slither Away, It Cartwheels at 8 MPH

One Million Raptors Fly over Georgia. 9,000 Are Shot for Fun.

A Rescued Spider Monkey Clings to Her Friend Like a Mom, but Her Friend Is Only 2

Fatal Deer Disease Hits Hillsdale County Mid-Hunting Season

One Reef Has Already Collapsed and 122 More Are at Risk

Why Do Gibbons Walk With Their Arms in the Air, Like They Just Don’t Care?

Mice Stranded on a Remote Island Grew 50% Bigger, Then Started Eating Albatross Chicks

Mountain Gorilla Comes Face-to-Face With Tourists in Rwanda, What Should They Do?

Urchins Surged 10,000%. Scientists Just Released Their Critically Endangered Predator

The Gulf Looks Clean but 60% of Its Marine Life Is Gone

The Bees You’re Saving Are Bullying Bumblebees off Flowers

The Hurricane Video That Shows How Horses Warn Each Other

Lion Cubs Keep Climbing on Two Resting Males, What Is This Behavior?

Why Hundreds of Spiders Are Gathered on a Power Line in Indonesia

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