Pallas’s cat: One of the world’s oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm
Pallas’s cat is a small wild cat native to Central Asia with short legs and dense fur, making it look bigger than it really is — but the yelps it…
Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World
Scientists Discover New Manta Ray Species: Mobula yarae When scientists announce a new species, it’s often a tiny frog, an obscure insect, or a deep-sea creature most people will never…
Scientists just uncovered three ancient worlds frozen beneath Illinois for 300 million years
More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago — including what is now the Mazon Creek (“muh-ZAHN”) fossil site — was alive…
Tour Guide Witnesses Touching Moment Between A Tapir And His Unlikely Friend
“It’s as if they’re talking to each other …” A few days ago, a Costa Rican tour guide named Dionisio Paniagua stumbled upon an interaction between two unlikely wild friends…
Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it’s not what scientists thought
A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo. Mystery…
Scientists reexamine 47-year-old fossil and discover a new Jurassic sea monster
A new long-necked marine reptile, Plesionectes longicollum, has been identified from a decades-old fossil found in Germany’s Posidonia Shale. The remarkably preserved specimen rewrites part of the Jurassic marine story,…
Zookeeper Completes Unique Fundraiser to Help Rescue Tiger Find Forever Home
Big Cat Keeper Goes Quiet for a Cause — And Raises Hundreds for Tiger Rescue Known for her boundless energy and constant chatter, Emily De Pasquale Wood, a Big Cat…
Watch robot crab ‘Wavy Dave’ get attacked in claw-waving contest with real crabs
Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but “Wavy Dave” doesn’t always come out unscathed. “Wavy Dave” the Robot Crab Crashes…
Creepy new giant insect may be the heaviest ever recorded in Australia
Researchers have discovered a giant stick insect living at high altitude in tropical North Queensland. Acrophylla alta is around 16 inches long and a strong contender for Australia’s heaviest recorded…
Mission begins to save snails threatened by own beauty
Scientists Race to Save the World’s Most Colorful Snails From Extinction A unique conservation mission is underway to protect some of the planet’s most strikingly beautiful—but critically endangered—snails: the Polymita…