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The wild denizens that share our planet, including videos, photo essays, and news on recently discovered—or increasingly rare—species.

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The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you

By Eleanor Cummins

Human animal humanimal hand swan feeding
Animals

Rethinking what sets humans apart starts with asking if we’re special at all

By Adam Rutherford

Stormtrooper spider Stormtroopis discovery species Star Wars
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These clone-like, Colombian spiders are named for Star Wars’ Storm Troopers

By Eleanor Cummins

Google Docs anonymous animals ranking auroch axolotl kiwi quagga quokka blobfish
Animals

The 7 best Google Docs anonymous animals, ranked

By Eleanor Cummins

a poodle running through a field with a silly haircut
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: 40,000 vanishing pigeons and the science of poodle haircuts

By Rachel Feltman

Rabid animals don’t always foam at the mouth—here’s what to look out for instead
Animals

Rabid animals don’t always foam at the mouth—here’s what to look out for instead

By Claire Maldarelli

Rattlesnake roundups Sweetwater Jaycees Texas
Animals

Rattlesnake roundups are a southern tradition. They’re also an ecological disaster.

By Eleanor Cummins

Clearwing butterfly toxin species photograph award winning
Animals

Megapixels: This butterfly’s wings are transparently toxic

By Eleanor Cummins

three weevils
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Scientists discovered 103 beetles on one island, and got to name them all

By Jessica Boddy

A singing mouse on a rock
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These mice sing their little hearts out—and that’s good for neuroscience

By Jessica Boddy

scioto madtom
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The endangered species list is full of ghosts

By Dyani Sabin

Giant bee Wallace's discovery extinction
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Scientists thought they lost the world’s largest bee, but it was hiding in plain sight

By Eleanor Cummins

Musca Domestica housefly larva adult
Animals

The White House is infested with flies

By Ellen Airhart

close-up of a zebra
Animals

How a zebra’s stripes put bloodthirsty flies into a tailspin

By Jessica Boddy

If fruit flies live without sleeping, why can’t I?
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If fruit flies live without sleeping, why can’t I?

By Kat Eschner

a tigress licking her paws
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: hot air balloon riots and the man-eatingest tiger

By Rachel Feltman

polar bear on sea shore
Animals

Climate change is pushing desperate polar bears, kangaroos, and other wildlife into human territory

By Niki Rust/The Conversation

Spider glowing eyes geology paleontology
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Megapixels: This fossilized spider’s eyes are still glowing 110 million years later

By Eleanor Cummins

guillemot colony
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20,000 birds just starved to death off the Dutch coast and no one knows why

By Sara Chodosh

front, side, and from-below view of a tentacle-nosed catfish
Animals

Megapixels: These tentacle-nosed catfish are aquatic superheroes

By Jessica Boddy

A macaroni penguin takes a little snooze on a rock.
Animals

Penguins may have islands to thank for their diverse looks

By Jessica Boddy

a woman wrangling a cow
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: deadly molasses and the best way to battle cattle

By Rachel Feltman

fluorescent flying squirrel
Animals

MEGAPIXELS: These flying squirrels fluoresce hot pink, and no one knows exactly why

By Rob Verger

sunflower star
Animals

What’s killing sea stars?

By Kat Eschner

groundhog on Groundhog Day
Animals

Groundhog Day is all about woodchuck sex

By Stam Zervanos/The Conversation

spotted hyena reproductive anatomy
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: ladies dueling topless and pseudopenis birth canals

By Sophie Bushwick, Sara Chodosh, and Rachel Feltman

Geese flock flying mechanics
Animals

How birds of a feather flock together

By Kat Eschner

Rodeo dirt Fort Worth Austin
Animals

Dirt can make or break a rodeo

By Eleanor Cummins

a gator snout sticking out of a frozen body of water
Animals

Megapixels: This swamp is full of frozen gator snouts

By Rachel Feltman

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything
Animals

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything

By Jessica Boddy

a vintage coca-cola ad
Animals

The weirdest things we learned this week: the sweetest-smelling butts, flaming birds, and 40 barrels of coke

By Rachel Feltman

three mannequins lying face down in a field
Animals

Is body paint a good insect repellent? The answer lies in this field of sticky mannequins.

By Jessica Boddy

squirrel in the snow
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Do wild animals hate being cold in winter?

By Bridget B. Baker/The Conversation

Face to face with the sloth
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Sloths aren’t the picky eaters we thought they were

By Jan Hoole/The Conversation

bird plane strike Miracle on the Hudson research science
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It’s the 10th anniversary of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson.’ Here’s what we’ve learned since.

By Eleanor Cummins

piedmontese bull homozygous myostatin
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Why these animals (and one baby) are incredibly jacked

By Sara Chodosh

a great tit perches on some foliage
Animals

Great tits are killing birds and eating their brains. Climate change may be to blame.

By Jessica Boddy

Close-up of a cane toad sitting in grass
Animals

Toads on a python, and five other animals hitching rides on bigger animals

By Jessica Boddy

Like your grandparents, monarch butterflies are now wintering in Florida
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Like your grandparents, monarch butterflies are now wintering in Florida

By Kat Eschner

smelling vacuum
Animals

I built a sniffing machine to protect dogs

By Rachel Nuwer

Close-up image of a polar bear underwater.
Animals

The inventors of the polar bear treadmill are back with a new scientific contraption

By Jillian Mock

a naked mole rat braces itself inside a tube
Animals

9 jaw-dropping facts about naked mole rats to celebrate the bloody ascent of their new queen

By Rachel Feltman

Sex, starvation, and saltwater moats: snail farms are wilder than you could ever imagine
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Sex, starvation, and saltwater moats: snail farms are wilder than you could ever imagine

By Eleanor Cummins

Closeup of blow-fly or carrion fly Calliphoridae
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Blow flies helped exonerate a woman of murder 17 years after the fact

By Gail Anderson/The Conversation

a girl reads a textbook with a magnifying glass, and butterflies come out of the pages
Animals

Insects are disappearing from science textbooks—and that should bug you

By Erin Blakemore

dracula ant
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The Dracula ant snaps its jaw shut 5,000 times faster than you can blink

By Sara Chodosh

tungara frog call panama
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Urban frogs are bringing sexy back—and threatening frogs of the woods

By Sara Chodosh

Western honey bee
Animals

He’s let thousands of insects bite and sting him—here’s what he’s learned

By Rachel Feltman

a brown seal has a spotted eel hanging from its nose
Animals

This is a seal with an eel stuck up its nose

By Rachel Feltman

gecko running water
Animals

It turns out geckos can run on water—and this adorable video shows how

By Sara Chodosh

Purple jellyfish float in the dark
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The new jellyfish genome proves you don’t need weird genes to be a weirdo

By Charlie Wood

lonesome george
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Lonesome George’s genes could reveal the secrets of longevity

By Sara Chodosh

These spiders make protein-packed milk for their young
Animals

These spiders make protein-packed milk for their young

By Jillian Mock

Siberian unicorns lived alongside humans, and they were so much cooler than the mythical version
Animals

Siberian unicorns lived alongside humans, and they were so much cooler than the mythical version

By Sara Chodosh

How your dog could go vegan and still stay healthy
Animals

How your dog could go vegan and still stay healthy

By Sarah Treleaven

Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain
Animals

Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain

By Charlie Wood

We finally know how wombats poop cubes
Animals

We finally know how wombats poop cubes

By Kat Eschner

a mosquito on a white background
Animals

How many mosquitoes can you squish into a syringe? Scientists may finally have an answer.

By Kat Eschner

These synthetic canine cadavers help vets save real dogs
Animals

These synthetic canine cadavers help vets save real dogs

By Rob Verger

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies
Animals

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies

By Sara Chodosh

MEGAPIXELS: This strange creature isn’t a spider or a dog, but it sure looks like both
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MEGAPIXELS: This strange creature isn’t a spider or a dog, but it sure looks like both

By Jillian Mock

Llamas could save us all from the flu
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Llamas could save us all from the flu

By Sara Chodosh

Behold the mighty elephant bird, blindly crashing through the Madagascan forest
Animals

Behold the mighty elephant bird, blindly crashing through the Madagascan forest

By Sara Chodosh

an illustration of a man pretending to read someone's mind in front of a crowd
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The spookiest things we learned this week

By Rachel Feltman

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