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Why Scientists Say You Should Never Feed a Wild Dolphin
Millions of tourists flock to beaches every year hoping to hand-feed wild dolphins, believing it brings them closer to nature.…
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The Alligator’s No. 1 Killer Isn’t What You Think
Alligators have ruled their territory since the age of dinosaurs, but a surprising lineup of animals still manages to hunt,…
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Never release your goldfish into a lake, and here’s exactly what happens next
Scientists set up artificial lakes, dropped in a few pet goldfish, and watched as something alarming unfolded faster than anyone…
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Missing for 70 years, this moth just turned up alive in front of researchers
Conservationists searching for species presumed gone made a discovery so unexpected it stopped them cold. A closer look at what…
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This 10-Minute Pony Swim Is a 101-Year-Old Virginia Tradition
Every July, a herd of wild ponies plunges into a Virginia channel while tens of thousands of spectators hold their…
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Why a Fort Fisher Sea Turtle Nest Suddenly Started to ‘Boil’
Dozens of loggerhead hatchlings just churned up from the sand at Fort Fisher, and the spectacle has a name that…
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Watch a Curious Gray Whale Swim Right Up to a Boat in Baja California
A massive gray whale surfaced beside a tour boat in Baja California and refused to leave, giving stunned passengers a…
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Watch One of the World’s Smallest Wild Cats Explore Its Forest Home
A fully grown wild cat that fits in your palm sounds impossible, but the rusty-spotted cats of South Asia pull…
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Why September Is the Great Migration’s Most Dramatic Month
Every September, millions of wildebeest and zebra converge on two African rivers where steep banks, raging currents, and lurking predators…
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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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Watch a Red Ruffed Lemur Sunbathe Like It’s Beach Season
Red ruffed lemurs strike a pose so strange it looks like something out of a yoga class, but there is…
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Banff Is Home to 65 Grizzlies. Here’s How Often They Attack.
Banff draws millions of visitors each year into a landscape shared by dozens of grizzlies, yet the story behind its…
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A 2-Foot Worm Grows Inside a Cricket, Then Steers It to Water
Inside a cricket's body, something has taken control of its brain and is steering it toward water. The horsehair worm's…
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50,000 eggs per female: why this Asian fish now worries wildlife officials
A fish that walks on land, breathes air, and survives days out of water has quietly spread across American rivers…
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Inside Fat Bear Week with Explore.org’s Mike Fitz
Every autumn, a remote Alaskan riverbank turns millions of people into devoted fans of some of the world's heaviest athletes.…
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The World’s Kindest Otter Helps a Janitor Clean Up
A staff member cleans up beside a pool and a crew of otters decides to pitch in, but whether that…
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Watch These Pesky Monkeys Steal People’s Phones and Hold Them Hostage
Long-tailed macaques at Bali's Uluwatu Temple have figured out something that surprises most visitors: your phone is worth more than…
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How Boat Noise Makes Baby Reef Fish Swim Toward Predators
Motorboat noise near the Great Barrier Reef is doing something alarming to young spiny chromis fish, and the consequences reach…
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A Herd of Deer Invade This Man’s Garage Looking for Food
Dozens of white-tailed deer have learned exactly where to go when they're hungry, and one Texas man's garage has become…
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Watch a Camel Take a Dip in the Ocean
A viral video of a camel gleefully rolling in the surf off an Omani beach raises a question most people…
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Scientists Filmed a 4-Foot Squid with ‘Elbows’ Two Miles Deep
A robotic sub on a routine seafloor mission accidentally crossed paths with one of the ocean's most elusive creatures, a…
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This Wasp Buries 60 Living Horseflies to Feed Its Young
Horseflies slice through skin with scissor-like jaws, tormenting livestock across the country, yet one unlikely predator keeps their populations in…
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Did you know male tarantulas knock on a female’s burrow before mating?
Each fall on the Colorado grasslands, thousands of tarantulas abandon the burrows they have called home for nearly a decade…
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Muddy Water Doesn’t Scatter Fish. It Draws Them Together.
As human development muddies rivers and lakes across the globe, aquatic life faces a growing crisis in finding food and…
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Endangered Wood Turtles Are Climbing the Catskills for Survival
Researchers tracking wood turtles in the Catskill Mountains made a discovery that defies everything scientists thought they knew about where…
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Wendy the Coyote Is Safe — But What’s Wrong with Her Face?
A coyote with a mysteriously swollen face survived over a year on the streets of Studio City thanks to neighbors…
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It’s not a migration: what Colorado’s tarantulas are really doing each fall
Each fall, something stirs across the sweeping prairies of southeast Colorado that most people misunderstand entirely. What draws thousands of…
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Trapped Baby Elephant Cries Out Until Rescuers Arrive With a Lifeline
A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the…
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Watch 6 Bear Cubs Race Up a Tree at Incredible Speed
Six bear cubs freeze at the edge of a forest clearing, fixated on something just out of frame, and then…
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Watch an 80,000-Pound Humpback Whale Pull Off a Stunning Backflip
A creature weighing tens of thousands of pounds just launched most of its body clean out of the ocean and…
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This Ibex Went Extinct, Was Cloned, Then Went Extinct Again
One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible.…
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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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This Elephant Turned a Tree Branch into a Giant Q-Tip
Elephants are known for their remarkable intelligence, but one video captures a behavior that takes their problem-solving skills to a…
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Bears Aren’t Hungriest After Hibernation — They’re Hungriest Now
Most people assume a bear fresh out of hibernation is at its most desperate and dangerous, but the science of…
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Here’s why your cat insists on sleeping at your feet every night
Your cat chooses that exact spot at the foot of your bed every single night, and the reason goes far…
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Why Can’t You Swat That Fly? Its Muscles Skip Nerve Signals
A housefly sees your swatter moving in slow motion, and the secret lies in muscles that defy how most animal…
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One Leap, One Stolen Tuna: The Shark Move Anglers Dread
A massive great white launched itself out of the water and came within inches of a fishing boat, leaving anglers…
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Why Manta Rays Rank Among the Sea’s Most Intelligent Animals
Manta rays have brains unlike any other fish, social lives that rival those of primates, and behaviors that are forcing…
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Did you know which marine animal still completely eludes scientists?
Scientists have studied the oceans for centuries, yet one marine giant has never once been seen alive by human eyes.…
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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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A Beachgoer Felt a Brush on His Toe — Then Saw the Rattlesnake
A California man stepped out of the ocean and felt something graze his toe, only to look down and find…
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Damselfish Help Corals Heal 55% Faster and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
A tiny saltwater fish is doing something extraordinary to injured coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, and scientists who documented the…
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Watch a Golden Eagle Soar Through the Alps in Incredible POV Footage
A cheetah topping out at 70 miles per hour looks slow next to a golden eagle in a hunting dive,…
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Watch Cheetahs Leap Onto a Safari Jeep Just Inches From Tourists
Several cheetahs spotted a parked safari jeep and decided it made a better vantage point than the open savanna, leaving…
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Watch This Hungry Flamingo Make Quick Work of Its Lunch
One flamingo at the San Antonio Zoo spotted a bowl of food and separated itself from the flock with a…
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Two Bucks Tangled in Wire — Then Two Strangers Stepped In
Their antlers locked in wire, two bucks thrashed and pulled, making everything worse with every struggle. Watch what happened when…
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Scientists Found a ‘Balrog’ Cricket in a Greek Military Tunnel
Deep inside a military tunnel on a tiny Greek island, scientists stumbled onto a cricket species so strange they named…
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Researchers revived this animal after several years trapped inside ice
Deep in Siberia, a small salamander does something that should be biologically impossible, surviving temperatures that would kill virtually any…
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Why Entire Kelp Forests Vanish When Sea Otters Disappear
Kelp forests shelter hundreds of marine species and rival rainforests in ecological importance, yet they can collapse within a single…
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This Newly Found Spider Lives in One Idaho Forest and Nowhere Else
University of Idaho students were searching for a completely different spider when they stumbled onto something no researcher had ever…