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Animals The 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists are here! Over 10,000 photos from 112 countries show the silliest, funniest animals ever caught on camera.
Animals A crayfish nicknamed 'Crawzilla' sparked an epic scientific contest. Discover which crawdad was crowned North America's biggest — and the mystery it revealed!
Animals New research proves sharks can hear sounds from nearly 250 feet away and know exactly where they are coming from. Sharks have amazing secret hearing!
Animals The greater one-horned rhino's global population has reached 4,075 — a huge comeback from fewer than 100 animals in the early 1900s. India just launched Project Rhino!
Animals Scientists found a brand-new species of penguin hiding on a remote island. It's the first new penguin species named in more than 100 years!
Animals A pest called the screwworm returned to the US this year. Scientists are fighting back with a brilliant trick: releasing a billion specially raised flies!
Animals Scientists analyzed 116,000 birdsong recordings and made a stunning discovery — every songbird on Earth builds its music from just 8 basic sound patterns!
Animals Britain's wasps have nearly vanished this summer, and scientists are worried. Extreme weather may be the cause — and wasps matter more than most people think!
Animals Scientists at Tulane University just discovered that bats have TWO sets of germ-fighting genes — a secret weapon no other mammal on Earth has!
Animals Why do baby snakes always curl to the right inside their eggs? Scientists finally cracked the mystery — and the answer involves a tug-of-war inside the egg!
Animals Scientists have discovered that chimpanzees in West Africa keep returning to the same trees to throw rocks at them — a mysterious behavior that may be a form of culture.
Animals Scientists discovered a brand-new lizard species in Thailand and named it after Syrax from House of the Dragon. Meet the tiny, yellowish Syrax mountain horned dragon!
Animals Scientists exploring Angola's remote Lisima Plateau discovered dozens of species never seen before, including 8 new dragonflies and about 60 new moths and butterflies.
Animals Scientists filmed dolphins in Australia using giant seashells as tools to catch fish — and a mom may be teaching her calf the trick!
Animals Three adorable endangered red panda cubs were born this summer at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute — great news for a species in trouble!
Animals Scientists discovered a brand-new extinct species of Ice Age toad in the La Brea Tar Pits fossil collections. Its bones had been sitting there since the 1950s!
Animals Nepal just announced its wild tiger count has reached 429 — nearly four times the number from 2009. It's one of the greatest wildlife comebacks ever!
Animals Male sperm whales make the loudest communication sound of any animal on Earth — a deep, slow CLANG that can travel for miles underwater. Scientists just figured out why!
Animals A female tiger named Umit — meaning 'hope' in Kazakh — has been released into the wild in Kazakhstan, where tigers vanished more than 70 years ago.
Animals Scientists discovered a tiny eyeless snail living in a mountain cave in China — and named it after a mythical faceless mountain god!
Animals Wildlife detectives in Kenya are investigating the deaths of 15 elephants near Amboseli National Park, believed to have been poisoned by farm chemicals.
Animals Scientists discovered a new beetle that looks so stretchy and rubbery they named it after One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy! Meet the Luffy beetle genus.
Animals Scientists attached cameras to whale sharks for the first time and discovered incredible secret feeding behaviors. Here's what the world's biggest fish was hiding!
Animals Nepal just counted 429 wild tigers — up from only 121 in 2010. It's one of the greatest wildlife comebacks on Earth! Here's how they did it.
Animals Scientists filmed orcas in the Gulf of California using a never-before-seen teamwork trick to smash giant sunfish into bite-sized pieces — possibly just for fun!
Animals Chinese scientists cloned 10 yaks in Tibet and are aiming for 100 by 2028 to help save a species in decline and support local herding communities.
Animals A major DNA study reveals koalas nearly went extinct 100,000 years ago due to climate change — long before humans reached Australia.
Animals Pakistan created a new sanctuary protecting 123 miles of the Indus River for the endangered Indus River dolphin, one of the world's rarest freshwater dolphins.
Animals Scientists have officially named a brand-new monkey species called Likweli living in the Congo rainforest. It has orange lips, black fur, and a deep roar!
Animals The numbat, Australia's striped marsupial, has been officially downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened after 40+ years of conservation efforts.
Animals For the first time ever, scientists filmed a live goblin shark swimming in its natural deep-sea home. This ancient shark is a 125-million-year-old living fossil!
Animals Scientists found 5,000-year-old wolf bones on a tiny island in Sweden with no wild land animals. Humans must have brought them by boat — rewriting dog history!
Animals Scientists were amazed when bumblebees solved a famous chimpanzee intelligence test all by themselves, with no training. What does this tell us about animal minds?
Animals Neil the Seal, a 1,000 kg elephant seal from Tasmania, Australia, is back in town for his 12th visit — and he has 1.4 million TikTok fans!