Scientists once wrote the Pacific pocket mouse out of existence, and California's explosive coastal development gave them every reason to. Now a quiet collaboration between conservationists and the U.S. Marines…
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Highway noise is reshaping the behavior of endangered white-handed gibbons in Malaysia's rainforests, and the consequences stretch far beyond a…
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Researchers dangled fruit in front of Asian elephants, then pulled a sneaky trick, and what the elephants did next is…
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Billions of animals raised for food share emotional lives as rich as the pets we adore, yet most spend their…
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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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Scientists long assumed cold weather alone sends black bears into hibernation, but new research tracking thousands of hours of footage…
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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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One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible.…
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Researchers combined GPS collars on thousands of wild animals with anonymized cellphone location data to expose something surprising about how…
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When Mexican authorities raided a suspected fuel smuggling operation near the U.S. border, they expected to find stolen diesel. What…
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Scientists long wrote off the aye-aye as a solitary oddity, a nocturnal Madagascan primate with rodent teeth and a taste…
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For nearly two centuries, scientists could neither confirm nor dismiss reports of an African bat lurking somewhere in Europe. The…
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Scientists collared dozens of mule deer around Grand Teton National Park and watched them do something no researcher expected, crossing…
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Those hisses, escape attempts, and bites in your favorite cat videos may not mean what you think they mean, and…
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Humans have long assumed that names are one of our most distinctive traits, but new research into elephants, dolphins, and…
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A newborn Schmidt's guenon has made her debut at Zoo Atlanta, clinging to her mother in the Ford African Rainforest,…
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Every morning, before eating a single bite of food, sick chimpanzees perform a precise ritual with a specific type of…
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Thousands of Asiatic black bears spend their lives imprisoned on bile farms, enduring conditions that would shock most people. But…
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Banded mongooses have discovered a survival trick so extreme it looks more like self-destruction than self-preservation. The toxic chemistry behind…
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Carnivore teeth face a brutal constraint baked into evolution itself: the same growth process that makes a tooth deadly at…
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Thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface, creatures that have never been formally named are vanishing before scientists get the…
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The plains spotted skunk does handstands to scare off predators, yet scientists have struggled for decades to even confirm where…
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Beavers spend weeks hauling logs and packing mud to build one of nature's most impressive structures, yet they never sleep…
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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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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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A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to…
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Over 100 macaques broke free from a Thai municipal enclosure overnight and stormed through a city already at war with…
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Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime…
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A retired dairy goat crashed the front row of a grindcore concert in rural France, and the photos quietly broke…
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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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A baby elephant with impossibly round proportions and stubby legs took social media by storm, but something about it feels…
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When Joe Reda heard a strange squeal coming from his shed, he grabbed a shovel and went to investigate. What…
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Four rabid bats have turned up in one Ohio county within a single month, and health officials are sounding the…
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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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Just like us, humpback whales have their preferences. They are incredibly intelligent creatures, with brains that can weigh up to…
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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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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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It’s hard to deny that even the fiercest big cat looks like a tabby when it engages in certain behaviors.…
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Nome, Alaska, sits just two degrees north of the Arctic Circle. A historic Alaskan town, Nome was the site of…
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We may think of prey animals as being timid, even passive, and not prone to confrontation. Nothing could be further…
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Animals often thrive on routine and consistency. For example, if you skip your pet dog’s usual walk time, you’ll notice…
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For the first time since 2004, scientists have detected pseudorabies in commercial swine populations. In late April, routine testing at…
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The field of veterinary care can be the most rewarding or the most terrifying experience for people who love animals.…
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Like any other clandestine industry, the illegal wildlife trade generates billions of dollars a year without much of a paper…
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Sometimes, solutions to multi-million-dollar questions require nothing more than a well-placed ferret. There are many stories about the creation of…
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If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?…
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A cottontail rabbit seems like the most delicate, vulnerable creature on Earth until it starts running. Even a seriously bloodthirsty…