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The solar eclipse triggered a number of strange behaviors among animals, who were seemingly confused by the Sun setting far earlier.

Science & Energy

Animals Reacted Strangely During the Eclipse

By Victor Tangermann

After his tragic death, veterinarians have found underlying illnesses in the body of New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Grim Diseases During Autopsy of NYC’s Flaco the Owl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Employees at a wildlife center are wearing a fox mask to help feed a baby fox — and folks are pointing out that it looks like a fursuit.

Wildlife Center Employee Dresses as Big Fox to Care for Baby Foxes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new PBS documentary captured the last moments rare Madagascan chameleon bursting into a vibrant display of color as she died.

Science & Energy

Chameleon Bursts Into Pulsating Color Just Before Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you give a rat a camera, it will, apparently, take selfies — even if it doesn't get a treat as a reward.

Science & Energy

Amateur Scientist Teaches Rats to Take Selfies

By Noor Al-Sibai

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

Science & Energy

Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!

Science & Energy

Chinese Zoo Denies Their Bear Is a Dude in a Bear Costume

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents of a Berlin suburb are being told to stay indoors over reports of a "loose, dangerous animal" — possibly an escaped lioness.

Science & Energy

Authorities Warn Residents to Stay Indoors as Lioness Escapes

By Victor Tangermann

An unexpected herd of 40 goats wandered through a Texas development, munching on lawns and landscaping as they went.

Science & Energy

Watch 40 Ravenous Goats Terrorize an Unsuspecting Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A yacht captain whose vessels have twice been attacked by the same pod of orcas has some interesting ideas about these killer whales.

Science & Energy

Captain Attacked Twice by Orcas Says They’re Developing Better Anti-Boat Strategies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ferocious feral chickens with "supercharged survival skills" have gotten out of control in Hawaii, The Atlantic reports.

Science & Energy

Hawaii Menaced by Furious Wild Chickens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Known as some of the animal kingdom's most complex social creatures, elephants in captivity appear to enjoy their interactions with humans.

Science & Energy

Elephants Love Hanging Out With People, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered a new type of tool-using insect, nicknamed the "assassin bug" for a creative — and deadly — hunting technique.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

Science & Energy

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in a river n Australia that millions of fish have turned up on its shores — but don't worry, everything's fine.

Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River

By Noor Al-Sibai

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.

Furious Marsupial So Thirsty For Sex That It’s Dying, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A giant aquarium in Berlin has exploded in the lobby of a hotel, spilling out hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and the 1,500 fish inside of it.

Huge Aquarium Bursts, Spills Tropical Fish And Injures Bystanders

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research shows that standard goose harassment tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away geese.

Science & Energy

Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Live experimentation, some of it allegedly inhumane, on 1,027 animals reportedly led to the deaths of 329 dogs, 31 pigs, and 661 rabbits and rodents.

Dr. Oz Accused of Killing Hundreds of Dogs, Puppies, Bunnies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dogs literally cry tears of joy when they see their owners after they've been away, scientists have found in the first study of its kind.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Dogs Cry Tears of Joy When Reunited With Owners

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of animal lovers is looking to use machine learning to translate animal "language" into something humans can understand.

Artificial Intelligence

Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tonka the chimpanzee starred in "Buddy" and "George of the Jungle" — and is at the center of a legal battle in which his owner allegedly faked his death.

Science & Energy

Chimpanzee Star of “Buddy” Found Alive After His Owner Allegedly Faked His Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

Think your town is bad? At least you don't have such a bad crow problem that officials are planning to use lasers to get rid of them.

Science & Energy

Silicon Valley City to Use Cheapo Lasers to Fight Invasion of Furious Crows

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are monitoring various species of wildlife to track whether the coronavirus can jump among different kinds of animals.

Scientists Systematically Hunting for COVID-19 in Wild Animals

By Dan Robitzski

Eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, the Associated Press reports, the first known case amount such primates in the US.

Eight Gorillas in Zoo Catch Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

Science & Energy

Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

By Dan Robitzski

"Bunny Ebola," a deadly hemorrhagic disease that infects rabbits, is spreading through domestic and wild populations in the U.S.

A “Bunny Ebola” Epidemic Is Sweeping Through America’s Rabbits

By Dan Robitzski

A programmer named Aldo Cortesi created an algorithm that draws nonexistent animals, some of which look plausible and others which look like bizarre.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Generated a Bunch of Mutated-Looking New Animals

By Jon Christian

A team of researchers and citizen scientists discovered a never-before-classified species of rare snail and named it after climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Scientists Discover New Snail, Name It After Greta Thunberg

Preventing bird collisions with planes and other manmade objects could be as simply as adding red or blue LEDs to our creations.

Science & Energy

Planes Kill Huge Numbers of Birds. LEDs Could Save Their Lives.

By Kristin Houser

AI That Counts And Identifies Wildlife Could Be A Game-changer For Ecologists

Artificial Intelligence

AI That Counts And Identifies Wildlife Could Be A Game-changer For Ecologists

By Dan Robitzski

Robo-Bees Can Infiltrate and Influence Insect Societies To Stop Them From Going Extinct

Robo-Bees Can Infiltrate and Influence Insect Societies To Stop Them From Going Extinct

By Dan Robitzski

Predators That Used To Be Threatened Are Expanding Back Into Their Old Habitats

Predators That Used To Be Threatened Are Expanding Back Into Their Old Habitats

By Dan Robitzski

Changing Regulations Mean Genetically Modified Meat Could Soon Be on Your Plate

Science & Energy

Changing Regulations Mean Genetically Modified Meat Could Soon Be on Your Plate

By Claudia Geib

Animal breeding is causing extremes like this horse, which features an exaggerated dished face.

We Are Breeding a World Full of Creatures That Cannot Survive

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Artificial Intelligence

Australia is Deploying AI Drones to Help Prevent Shark Attacks

By Patrick Caughill

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Genetic Engineering Can Help Us Save Animals’ Lives

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Gene-edited “micropigs” to be sold as pets in China

Gene-edited “micropigs” to be sold as pets in China

Three Pieces of Evidence That Prove Evolution is a Fact

Three Pieces of Evidence That Prove Evolution is a Fact