Latest Animals Stories
Lessons from Lake Tanganyika’s scale eating fish
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Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press
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Reindeer can see UV light—and we may know why
This ‘blue dragon’ sliced through the ancient Pacific with paddle-like fins
The best automatic cat feeders for 2024
Arctic seals have special noses
Rare bird with half male and half female plumage photographed in Colombia
Releasing pet goldfish into the wild has serious consequences
New Zealand’s quest to save its rotund, flightless parrots
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Rina Diane Caballar / Knowable Magazine
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Why dinosaur footprints inspired paleontologist Martin Lockley
Even lab mice are getting VR headsets now
‘Forever chemicals’ found in freshwater fish, yet most states don’t warn residents
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Hannah Norman / KFF Health News
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Fossil first identified as plant is actually a baby turtle
Meet NeRmo, the mouse robot with backbone
Ancient Egyptians likely kept baboons in captivity—and mummified them
Mice may be able to recognize their own reflections
Watch the mucus-filled, synchronized mating dance of bioluminescent ‘sea fireflies’
Tracing the crocodiles’ curious evolutionary family tree
Millions of years ago, male mosquitoes may have been blood suckers too
Digitized records from wildlife centers show the most common ways that humans harm wild animals
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Tara K. Miller and Richard B. Primack / The Conversation
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Watch this eel robot effortlessly glide underwater
Go (virtually) adopt an axolotl, the ‘Peter Pan’ of amphibians
Fiber optic cables can pick up cicadas’ droning din
An unknown respiratory illness is sickening dogs in the US, but ‘don’t panic’
A legendary Vangunu giant rat was finally caught on camera
All the fish we cannot see
Female Taricha newts are more poisonous than males
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino named Delilah welcomes first calf
My dog’s safe space can be your dog’s new happy place
African penguins may tell each other apart by the spots in their plumage
Tracking bird migration with radio-based technology
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Sara Van Note / Undark
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How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics
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Ankur Gupta / The Conversation
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Shop pet DNA kits at Amazon for Black Friday and find your dog or cat’s origin story
10 new species of trilobite fossil rise from volcanic ash
The best bird feeder camera is cheaper than ever at Amazon for Black Friday
Army ants could teach robots a thing or two
In India, a need for new antidotes to curb deadly snakebites
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Kamala Thiagarajan / Undark
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Why these sea worms detach their butts to reproduce
How do animals see the world?
Cuttlefish and their amazing technicolor dreamcoats
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Olivia Ferrari / Hakai Magazine
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Scientists are confounded by the sex lives of serontine bats
Why dogs usually can’t tell what you’re pointing at
How ingredients in everyday soap could help fight malaria
Wild bonobos show surprising signs of cooperation between groups
Surprise! These sea cucumbers glow
Piping plovers are in trouble, but there’s some good news
Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time
These newfound beetles have male genitals shaped like a bottle opener
It’s time to start counting spiders
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Betsy Mason / Knowable Magazine
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Hummingbirds have two creative strategies for flying through tight spaces
Century-old buffalofish are still living in their prime
The mystery of why some dinosaurs got so enormous
Megalodon’s warm-blooded relatives are still circling the oceans today
What head lice can tell us about human migration
These robots reached a team consensus like a swarm of bees
The best cat trees of 2023
The best cat scratching posts in 2023
The best dog DNA tests of 2023
The best dog beds of 2023
Endangered sea turtles build hundreds of nests on the Outer Banks
North America was once home to some unusual wild monkeys
Seals with funny hats are helping map the Antarctic seascape
Overfeeding cats will mess with their guts and poop
Rats may have imaginations
The science behind mixing honey into cocktails