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A Flying Fish Takes to the Air. Can It Escape This Pelican?
A flying fish launches itself out of the ocean off the coast of Namibia, trading one predator for another. What…
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Rescue Dogs Are Hunting Poop Along the Road to Joshua Tree
Thousands of vehicles barrel through prime desert wildlife habitat every day, and the animals navigating that gauntlet have no idea…
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An 8-Foot Python Crosses a Florida Road. What Happens Next?
A massive Burmese python stretched across a Florida road stops traffic and draws a crowd, but the real shock comes…
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Why a Smaller Sea Lizard Out-Lunged the 50-Foot Mosasaurus
Mosasaurs dominated the Late Cretaceous seas with bodies built for pure predatory power, but new research reveals their hunting strategies…
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Shark Ears Are Weirder (and More Varied) Than Anyone Expected
Scientists expected shark ears to follow the same rules as every other vertebrate, shaped by habitat and diet. Instead, a…
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Flying Fish Escape Into the Air. But Are They Safe?
Flying fish can launch themselves out of the ocean at over 35 miles per hour to escape hungry predators below,…
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Sea Lions Help Scientists Reveal How Human Noise Reaches Wildlife
Before scientists can measure how noise pollution harms wildlife, they must first understand what animals can actually hear. Trained sea…
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Lesser Scaup Ducks Were Too Common to Study. Then Half Vanished
Once among the most common ducks in North America, the lesser scaup was so abundant that scientists never bothered to…
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Does Owning A Cat Make You Happier? A 93-Country Study Found A Surprising Link
A sweeping study across 93 nations found an unexpected connection between cat ownership and how happy a country reports being,…
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Lost for 140 Years: The “Mythical Bird” Caught on Camera at Last
For 140 years, a ground-dwelling bird known to islanders as the Auwo vanished so completely that scientists began to wonder…
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Brown Bear Charges Armed Hunter. Why Didn’t He Shoot?
A hunter deep in a dense forest suddenly finds himself just feet away from a charging brown bear, and running…
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Great White Shark Chases a Drone’s Shadow. Is It Actually “Playing”?
Wildlife cinematographer Carlos Gauna moved his drone's shadow across the water near a great white shark, and what happened next…
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A New Penguin Species Has Been Discovered for the First Time in 100 Years
Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and…
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Massive Analysis of 3,000 Animal Encounters Flips the Script on Wildlife Risk
A massive study of over 3,000 aggressive wildlife incidents across Canadian national parks pointed to a surprising culprit as the…
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Your Dog’s Brain Flags a Word in 400 Milliseconds, Just Like Yours
Scientists have long assumed dogs recognize familiar words through repetition and reward, but new EEG research reveals something far stranger…
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Alligator Climbs 16 Stairs. Is This Normal Gator Behavior?
Guests at a Folly Beach vacation home expected sun and sand, not a six-foot alligator waiting for them on the…
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Mother Bats Drop Their Pups to Survive. Enter the Bat Bassinet.
When a spectacled flying fox pup gets too heavy, its mother faces an impossible choice. Volunteers in Cairns are racing…
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Wind Farms Kill Eagles, but a New Safety System Deters the Birds from Getting Too Close
Wind turbines kill thousands of eagles every year, putting energy companies in direct conflict with federal wildlife law. A new…
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Nobody Had Ever Filmed an Omura’s Whale Eating, Then This Drone Did
Omura's whale has eluded researchers since its discovery, and even basic behaviors like feeding have remained a mystery. A chance…
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Hawaii’s 1955 Fix For A Snail Problem Backfired, And It Took 70 Years To Start Undoing It
Hawaii brought in a predator snail to save its crops, and the plan worked exactly as designed until it didn't.…
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Deer Collars Reveal Smoke 10 Times Worse Than Stations Report
Wildfire smoke is quietly devastating wildlife in ways that official air quality stations completely miss, and a solar-powered deer collar…
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Half Platypus, Half Otter, All Predator, and Chihuahua-Sized
A Jurassic fossil from China is forcing scientists to rethink what early mammal relatives looked like and how they lived,…
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The Iconic Wombats of Australia and Their Ecosystem Importance
Wombats look like chunky, slow-moving oddities of the Australian bush, but beneath the surface they are quietly holding entire ecosystems…
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Utah Pulled One Invasive Fish Out Of A River, And A Native Species Rebounded In 6 Years
For a decade, researchers watched a native Utah trout lose ground in its own river before deciding that saving it…
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Green Bay Went 70 Years Without A Nesting Plover, Now 4 Pairs Return There Every Year
A shorebird that nearly vanished from the Great Lakes stopped showing up at Green Bay for over seven decades, so…
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Man Races to Save a Trapped Seal. What If He Didn’t?
A trained rescuer sprints into a dense seal colony on the Namibian coast, scattering hundreds of animals, all to reach…
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Hippo Charges a Pride of Lions, But Why Do They Run?
A pride of lions looks relaxed near the water until a massive hippo decides it has other plans for that…
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Nuclear Bomb Fallout Hid a Clock Inside Whale Teeth
Nuclear weapons testing left a faint radioactive signature across every ocean on Earth, and Scottish researchers just discovered that whale…
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A Miami Bay Just 6 Feet Deep Was Named A Critical Refuge For 13 Shark And Ray Species
A bay overlooked by condo towers and boat traffic hides something researchers spent nearly a decade trying to prove: that…
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Police Chase a Runaway Cow, But How Fast Can Cows Run?
A cow that escaped its pasture in Parker had no intention of making things easy for the deputies and cowboys…
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The Australian Raptors That Intentionally Spread Wildfires
Firefighters across Australia's tropical savannas keep extinguishing the same blazes, only to watch them reignite nearby while birds of prey…
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Ohio Just Confirmed Its First Armadillo That Didn’t Hitch A Ride To Get There
Armadillos have been creeping steadily northward for over a century, but getting to Ohio required something earlier roadkill discoveries never…
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The World’s Oldest Land Animal Has Oddly Young DNA Switches
Jonathan the giant tortoise has survived nearly two centuries on a remote Atlantic island, outliving empires and 31 governors, and…
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Underwater Speakers Drew 14 Times More Baby Fish to a Reef
Coral reefs are surprisingly noisy places, and scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography suspected that noise might hold the key…
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The Big Cat That Can’t Roar and Has Never Attacked a Human
Snow leopards haunt some of the world's most extreme terrain and have never once attacked a human, yet they face…
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Kazakhstan Hasn’t Seen A Wild Horse Foal Born In 200 Years, Until Botai And Tumar Arrived
For the first time in two centuries, Przewalski's horses are being born on the Kazakh steppe, but whether these foals…
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They Call it the World’s Most Dangerous Bird, and Yet it Does the Gardening
Standing nearly six feet tall with a dagger-tipped foot and a reputation for ferocity, the southern cassowary seems built for…
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One Wolf Starts Howling and Another Joins In—What Are They Saying?
When one ambassador wolf at a New York conservation center lifts his voice, something remarkable happens to the wolf nearby.…
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India Declared Cheetahs Extinct in 1952. Now 9 Cubs in 2 Months
After seven decades of absence, cheetahs are once again raising cubs in India, but whether a fragile, government-managed population can…
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Two Bald Eagles Lock Talons and Plunge Toward the Ground, Is This Courtship or Combat?
Two bald eagles lock talons and spiral toward the ground in a display that could mean courtship or combat, and…
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Two Pandas Just Landed in Atlanta, but China Still Owns Them
Two giant pandas just touched down in Atlanta after a journey from Chengdu, but the unusual legal reality behind their…
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No Complex Life Was Supposed to Breed at 145°F. This One Does.
Scientists expected to find nothing remarkable in a California hot spring. Instead, they pulled out a microscopic creature that breaks…
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Mountain Lions Cut Deer Crashes 67% and 30 States Hunt Them
A new study reveals that a single predator silently reshapes deer behavior across entire landscapes, and the financial and human…
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16,000 Whales Swarm Greenland Waters That Were Once Locked in Ice
Melting Arctic ice has opened up waters off Greenland's coast that were once frozen shut, and thousands of baleen whales…
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Cat Raised by Dogs Races Into the Ocean, Why Isn’t He Afraid of the Water?
Marlin the ginger kitten grew up surrounded by dogs and decided their rules were his rules too, which explains what…
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Up To 1,000 Elephants Climb A Tanzania Mountain, And A New Corridor Just Recorded 529 Of Them
Every year, hundreds of elephants tackle a 6,500-foot mountain in Tanzania, but for decades a shrinking valley stood between them…
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Slow and Steady: Why Sloths are Climate Warriors and Forest Guardians Worth Protecting
Sloths carry entire ecosystems in their fur, descend from the canopy to perform rituals that sustain hidden life cycles, and…
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Hunters Chased This Alligator For 4 Years, And At 844 Pounds It’s South Carolina’s 2nd Largest
Cole Poplin spent three or four hunting seasons watching the same enormous alligator cruise through Lake Moultrie, close enough to…
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A Rattlesnake Swam the Length of a Backyard Pool on Hilton Head Island, and It Was Filmed
A massive rattlesnake dropped into a Hilton Head backyard pool and swam straight across it, calm as you please, while…
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A Bird with Unreal Colors Just Turned Up on a Lake in Northern Italy
A duck so vivid it looks hand-painted just appeared on an Italian lake, leaving onlookers questioning whether what they saw…