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Koalas Could Vanish in 30 Years — This Vaccine Is Step One to Save Them
Koalas face a countdown to extinction driven by forces working against them from every direction, and the animals' most prized…
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This Fish Knows Its Own Face — and It’s Still on Your Plate
Some fish recognize their own reflection, remember individual rivals, and wield tools to crack open prey. Yet they remain among…
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A Rotated Fruit Box Reveals Asian Elephants’ Surprising Self-Control
Researchers dangled fruit in front of Asian elephants, then pulled a sneaky trick, and what the elephants did next is…
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Documentaries Got It Backwards: Lions Are the Ones Trailing Hyenas
For decades, researchers assumed hyenas shadowed lions to steal scraps from fresh kills. But when GPS collars revealed exactly how…
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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 Shocking Intelligence Of Crows: What These Birds Can Really Do Will Stun You
Crows remember your face, manufacture their own tools, and outsmart animals far larger than themselves. What researchers keep uncovering about…
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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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Europe’s Favorite Fish Hit By A Strange Genetic Mutation: Should You Be Worried?
Decades of industrial fishing have triggered something scientists never anticipated deep within the Atlantic cod's DNA, and the consequences for…
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Watch a Kudu Leap Over a Safari Car to Escape a Lion
A lion-chased kudu bolting through Kruger National Park suddenly ran out of open ground, leaving the antelope with only one…
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This Frog Carries Her Eggs on Her Back Until Tiny Froglets Hatch
One Amazonian treefrog has turned motherhood into something that looks almost impossible, carrying her offspring through every stage of development…
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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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The Fish That Can Swallow Prey Larger Than Itself
Scientists recently captured something extraordinary on camera in the deep ocean near Trinidad and Tobago: a small fish casually devouring…
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These Tiny Mammals Remodel Their Skulls to Survive Winter
Some animals grow thicker coats to survive winter, but one tiny mammal takes a far stranger approach, physically restructuring its…
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The Short-Eared Elephant Shrew Looks like an Elephant-Mouse Hybrid
A four-inch creature with a trunk, lightning speed, and a genetic family tree that defies everything its name suggests. The…
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This Buck’s Antlers May Hit 700 Inches and $10,000 Rides on It
A Pennsylvania buck nicknamed Juggernaut stunned hunters and wildlife fans alike when photos showed his antlers appearing longer than his…
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Look Inside a Heron’s Beak and You’ll Find One Very Odd Tongue
A heron's tongue hides features so unusual that scientists had to coin a new term just to describe one of…
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Your Cat Knows Exactly Who You Are And Scientists Just Proved It
Scientists in Japan designed a deceptively simple experiment to probe what goes on behind a cat's quiet stare, and the…
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How Old Is Your Pet Really? The Answer Will Leave You Speechless
Scientists have scrapped the beloved rule pet owners have trusted for decades, and the replacement reveals something genuinely unsettling about…
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The Ongoing Fight to Phase Out Horse-Drawn Carriages in New York City
A horse collapsed in Central Park, a tourist died from a runaway carriage, and Philadelphia banned the trade entirely, all…
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Meet the Flying Squirrel That ‘Glows in the Dark’
Flying squirrels have a strange secret that only shows up after dark, and it has nothing to do with their…
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Why This Crab Wears Algae, Seaweed, and Stinging Anemones
Some crabs go far beyond blending in, arming themselves with living creatures that sting, poison, and repel anything that comes…
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This Striking Moth Looks Like It Was Hand-Painted
With wings that look hand-painted in black and white, the giant leopard moth pulls off a remarkable trick that fools…
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Watch Emperor Penguins Rocket Out of the Water Onto Antarctic Ice
Emperor penguins weigh up to 88 pounds, yet they somehow launch their entire bodies clear of Antarctic waters and land…
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Pigs Are as Smart as Dogs. Most Never See the Sun.
Billions of animals raised for food share emotional lives as rich as the pets we adore, yet most spend their…
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This Colossal Python Just Shattered The Record For Longest Wild Snake Ever Found
Deep in the Indonesian jungle, a female reticulated python so enormous she defies belief has forced scientists and conservationists to…
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This Bird Dives 564 Meters Without Breathing: Scientists Discovered How It Survives
An emperor penguin can vanish beneath Antarctic ice for nearly half an hour, pushing its body to limits that should…
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This New Zealand Pigeon Gets Drunk on Fermented Fruit and Falls Out of Trees
New Zealand's beloved kererū has a reputation that goes well beyond winning Bird of the Year. This surprisingly charismatic pigeon…
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El Niño Killed 70% of Galápagos Penguins in 1998. It’s Back.
A powerful El Niño is bearing down on the Galápagos Islands, and scientists warn that the archipelago's most iconic species…
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Buffalo Confronts an Elephant Calf Until the Herd Steps In
A lone buffalo blocks an elephant calf's path at MalaMala Game Reserve, sending the youngster scrambling backward. What happens when…
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See How This Beaver Chops Trees Better Than Any Lumberjack
A beaver gnaws through a tree across an entire day and night, but the reasons behind all that relentless chewing…
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What Looked Like a Fern Was Actually a 560-Million-Year-Old Animal Fossil
A rock tumbled off a cliff in a Norwegian sheep field, split open, and revealed something that scientists say reshapes…
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Once Down to 22 Birds, Condors Return to the Sky Saturday
The California condor vanished from the wild entirely, but a decades-long fight to save the species has led to a…
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Inside the Colorado Sanctuary Giving Parrots a Second Chance
A Colorado sanctuary has spent 31 years rescuing parrots from situations most owners never anticipated facing, and the founder says…
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Tortoiseshell Hunting Made This Species One of the Most Critically Endangered Turtles in the Sea
Centuries of demand for hawksbill shells built empires of decorative treasure, and even a global trade ban has not stopped…
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Leafcutter Ants Were Farming Underground Long Before We Were
Leafcutter ants run sophisticated underground farms complete with crop management, pest control, and live-in bacterial partners. Their agricultural operation puts…
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This 4-Inch Fish Builds a 6-Foot Work of Art on the Seafloor
A tiny pufferfish spends over a week sculpting something on the seafloor so striking that divers spent years puzzling over…
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These Adorable Bamboo Bears Are Running Out of Places to Live
Wild red panda populations have collapsed at a staggering pace, yet most of the threats pushing them toward extinction have…
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The Weird Sound Experts Say Will Instantly Grab Your Cat’s Attention
Scientists staged a feline attention experiment inside a Parisian cat café and found that the vocal tricks most cat owners…
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Cheetahs May Use Epigenetics to Overcome Remarkably Low Genetic Diversity
Namibian cheetahs are nearly genetic clones of one another, yet some undergo a dramatic physical and behavioral transformation during their…
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Smarter Than Most Humans? What Scientists Just Discovered About Crows
Crows drop nuts into traffic, remember human faces for years, and comfort each other after arguments. Scientists studying these birds…
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Inside the California Sanctuary Home to Rescued Lions, Tigers and Bears
Somewhere on the edge of a California national forest, lions, tigers, bears, and dozens of other animals live out their…
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Two Deer Get Trapped Behind a Fence, Then Find Their Own Way Out
Two deer trapped inside a fenced enclosure refuse to panic and refuse to wait for rescue, and what they do…
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Florida Lacrosse Practice Stops as an Alligator Crosses the Field
Practice at Alonso High School in Tampa ground to a halt when an uninvited visitor decided the lacrosse field made…
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For the First Time in 49 Years, an Endangered Bird Has Returned to Nest on Wisconsin Point
After nearly five decades without a single nesting pair, an endangered shorebird showed up at a Wisconsin shoreline that scientists…
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Why These ‘Killer Bees’ All Face the Exact Same Direction
A viral video shows hundreds of Africanized honey bees packed inside an abandoned metal pipe in Arizona, all locked in…
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700,000 Turtles Stormed One Beach in India’s Biggest Nesting Year
Every year, hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles abandon the ocean and converge on a single stretch of Indian…
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Trashed DNA Just Revealed 2 Lost Galápagos Tortoise Lineages
DNA so degraded it would normally be thrown out just gave researchers a foothold in solving a mystery buried in…
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What Kept a Houseboat Town Awake All Night? Singing Fish
In the 1980s, residents of a California houseboat community lost sleep over a mysterious, droning hum that rattled their hulls…
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The Octopus That Builds Mobile Homes from Coconut Shells
The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, featureless…
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How Cold Is Too Cold For Your Cat? Vets Reveal The Hidden Danger
Most cat owners assume a thick coat keeps their feline safe through winter, but veterinarians are warning that the real…