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Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need
Sea cucumbers gobble up sediments on the ocean floor and on coral reefs. Georgia Tech/Clements et. al. 2024. Coral reefs all over the world are in serious danger. However, a critical way to keep reefs...
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See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with the help of a...
During an expedition off the coasts of Chile and Rapa Nui, scientists spotted a bony Chaunacops fish swimming in the waters of Chile’s Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park. Schmidt Ocean Institute Our...
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NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers
A female tiger in the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO site, in Russia. ANO WCS and Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve Less than 4,500 tigers remain in the world, according to the International...
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Jellyfish-inspired glowing dye can glom onto fingerprints at crime scenes
Green Fluorescent Protein can be found in jellyfish, and might provide a new way to lift fingerprints. Deposit Photos Imagine a crime scene. Chances are, you’re also imagining someone dusting for...
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Why flamingo milk is pink
Similarly to pigeons, flamingo male and females produce crop milk for their babies. DepositPhotos What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even...
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This tiny fish is louder than an airplane taking off
These translucent fish live in murky and shallow streams in Myanmar and have evolved a unique organ for making noise. Senckenberg/Britz Some of Earth’s fish are known for their Herculean strength and...
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Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now
The three eggs were laid in January and are being monitored by their parents, Jackie and Shadow. Friends of Big Bear Valley All eyes are on two new avian internet celebrities and their cozy home in...
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Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI
“Having an algorithm like this dramatically speeds up the information-gathering process.". DepositPhotos Researchers using an AI photo-scanning tool similar to facial recognition have learned that...
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Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first...
A single orca whale named Starboard was observed hunting and killing a great white shark in June 2023. Christiaan Stopforth (Drone Fanatics SA), Arianna Di Bari (Shark Studies Center Scientific...
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Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’
The alligator gar is an example of a living fossil. These plants, animals, and fungi show very little species diversity or physical differences from ancestors that lived tens of millions of years ago....
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Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’
A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti. Its feathery appendages are called parapodia and carry the worm’s gills. Ekin Tilic The planet’s deep-sea worms...
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New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand
A potentially new squid species found off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Ocean Census/NIWA The Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean basin on the planet. Scientists barely know just...
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Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths
An artist's rendering of jellyfish donning Caltech's sensor hat. Credit: Caltech/Rebecca Konte To better understand the ocean’s overall health, researchers hope to harness some of evolution’s simplest...
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Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females
Male and female lemurs tend to be the same size, unlike some other primates like gorillas. Deposit Photos The idea that most biologically male members of a species are physically larger than the...
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Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting
Genetic material harvested from Marco Polo argali sheep like those pictured above were used to illegally breed hybrids. Deposit Photos Please do not spend nearly a decade working to secretly clone...
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Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit
Employees from the Richmond Wildlife Center are trying to act like mother foxes when working with an orphaned kit. Melissa Stanley/Richmond Wildlife Center To the human eye, a video of a faux fox may...
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How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’
Juvenile American eels are transparent and called glass eels. They annually migrate north to New York's Hudson River from February through May. Chris Bowser/Cornell University The Hudson River used to...
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Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers
Commonly called the ‘Irish elk,” these deer weighed upwards of 1,500 pounds. This specimen is currently housed at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Paolo Viscardi, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ireland may not...
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Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch
Jackie and Shadow tending to the eggs as snow covers the region on March 7, 2024. CREDIT: Friends of Big Bear Valley/Big Bear Eagle Nest Cam Though they’ve captivated the internet since late February,...
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How crafty orca whales hunt near submarine canyons
Transient killer whale attacking a California sea lion off Big Sur, California. Josh McInnes, CC-BY 4.0 A distinct subpopulation of orca whales appears to be using specialized hunting techniques to...
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