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How everyone can help monarch butterflies
Close your eyes and imagine a butterfly. Chances are you may have pictured a monarch, with its blazing orange and black wings. They are some of North America’s most iconic butterflies, but they are...
View ArticleAnts perform teeny tiny operations to save their injured comrades
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits...
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One in 100 million cotton candy lobster caught in New Hampshire
A rare cotton candy lobster was the catch of the day recently off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire. This candy-colored crustaceans was caught by a local lobsterman and donated to the Seacoast...
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Why are there so many birds?
There are thousands of species of birds living on Earth today–anywhere from around 10,000 to as many as 18,000, depending on how you define “species.” The fossil record suggests that almost all of...
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A ‘rotting little plastic bag’ was actually a 514 million-year-old fossil
A newly discovered extinct mollusk species that skulked along the ocean floor half a billion years ago is offering new insights into the early days of this diverse group of animals. Fossils from...
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Tiny fossil reveals when penguins evolved their surprisingly useful wings
Penguins can’t fly. And while their wings may seem to be purely decorative, these appendages actually play a larger role in their evolutionary history. A fossil penguin species named Pakudyptes...
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A new theory on why fireflies glow—and why they need help
Their ethereal yellow (or green, or red) glow popping up from the grass signals summer. While there may be as many as 2,400 species of firefly on Earth, these flying, bioluminescent insects are under...
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Sea lion camera crews help scientists map unexplored seabeds
Scientists have a new ally helping them explore the ocean’s seabeds–sea lions. A team in Australia recruited endangered Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) to carry video cameras down to this...
View ArticleMore than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year...
Glass windows are a marvel of human engineering–clear, nearly invisible sheets of sturdy material that let us bring natural light into closed structures. Yet beyond the walls of bright and airy...
View ArticleAnts perform teeny tiny operations to save their injured comrades
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One in 100 million cotton candy lobster caught in New Hampshire
A rare cotton candy lobster was the catch of the day recently off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire. This candy-colored crustaceans was caught by a local lobsterman and donated to the Seacoast...
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The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins
Today is the first day of The Florida Python Challenge, where snake hunters will wade into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons. Up to $25,000 in prizes are up for grabs during this...
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In Iceland, humans throwing baby puffins is a good thing
There are few birds in the northern hemisphere quite as striking and easily identifiable as a puffin. With its red-orange, yellow, and black beak, bold black and white feathers and perpetual puppy dog...
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Rare, endangered ocelot caught on camera
For the first time in half a century, an ocelot has been spotted in the Atascosa Highlands region of southern Arizona. The endangered wild cat was caught on cameras installed by The Phoenix Zoo’s...
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Extremely rare tardigrade fossils seen in unprecedented detail
Multiple ancient and extinct species of tardigrades, aka “water bears,” can now be seen in unprecedented, high-resolution detail thanks to high-powered microscopy tools. With these new observations,...
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Man finds gigantic mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek
A fossil collector recently stumbled across a major find while exploring rural Mississippi—the state’s first confirmed mammoth tusk. But finding it was only the first of many hurdles to recovering the...
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Zebrafish regenerate their spinal cords in a surprising way
For the first time, scientists have built a detailed atlas of a zebrafish’s nerve cells. The atlas tells scientists how these special fish can fully heal a severed spinal cord and could offer clues on...
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Watch a huge ‘No Boys Allowed’ shark slumber party
It appears that no boy sharks were invited to this gathering of sleeping female Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) in Australia. The fish were spotted snuggled up along the seafloor at...
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This eyeless cavefish grows extra taste buds on its head
Despite belonging to the same species, there are technically two kinds of cavefish in northeastern Mexico: those with extremely large eyes and those with no eyes at all. But a lack of vision organs...
View ArticleWhich animals can and can’t fart?
Who amongst us hasn’t wondered if a snake can fart? Dani Rabiotti, a quantitative ecologist, posed that question to Twitter in 2017. Her inquiry into animal flatulence went viral, of course. From...
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