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Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South…
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Jake Buehler is a science writer living on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with an adoration for the Tree of Life’s weird, wild, and unsung.
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Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with…
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Some birds are gifted with shockingly long lives. In captivity, crows can live into their 50s. Certain parrot…
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As the sun descends behind sand dunes and wind-carved escarpments, central Qatar’s Al Rayyan region gets a reprieve…
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Right now, as summer broils the northern hemisphere, countless animals are trying to dump heat. Dogs are panting.…
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You might be able to quickly recognize a friend from afar based on their body language or their personal fashion…
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She was a common black hawk. He was a red-shouldered hawk. They weren’t in the same genus, let alone the same…
Feb 19
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White-bellied sea eagles are majestic, keen-eyed predators that soar effortlessly above coastal forests and marshes.…
Feb 10
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Over the last 150 years, the males of certain invasive mongooses have undergone some serious tweaks to their sexual…
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High in the Sierra Nevada, a spotted owl soundlessly touches down in a massive red fir. As its ears scan the forest…
Jan 8 2020
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Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But…
Dec 9 2019
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Scientists have discovered a spider living in South Africa that’s truly a sight to behold. The arachnids feature a…
Nov 19 2019
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Manta rays and whale sharks are among the largest filter-feeding fishes on the planet. To power their bulk, they…
Nov 8 2019
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Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their…
Sep 18 2019
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Some of the most serendipitous discoveries about nature can be prompted by just about anything, like finding the…
Aug 27 2019
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Rapture Reef was an undersea Eden, hundreds of miles out in a remote, ocean wilderness. It was a pristine, coral…
Aug 6 2019
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Fire is central in the world of black-backed woodpeckers, to the point that the birds pick cavities in recently…
Jul 9 2019
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Not even the oceans’ top predators can escape the ruinous embrace of humanity’s plastic waste, suggests new…
Jun 22 2019
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If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled…
Apr 2 2019
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Wood-boring clams don’t look like the ones you or I might find steamed with pasta. They’re smaller than a pea, and…