They aren’t made of asphalt, have no traffic lights, and no cars drive on them. Yet, these unusual “highways” are already saving thousands of lives. In the Brazilian Amazon, conservationists have built rope bridges high up in the trees, allowing monkeys, sloths, and other jungle inhabitants to safely cross over the roads. The results are […]

Scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to create the first dogs lacking a key protein that triggers allergic reactions in humans, the Associated Press reported two months ago. The study, published in *The CRISPR Journal*, describes how specialists from the US company Kindred Companion Sciences created two female Beagles—Bailey and Alfie. They “switched off” the […]

The study challenges prevailing views on the evolution of language A new study conducted by Hungarian researchers reveals that dogs can segment continuous speech into words—a capability previously observed only in humans. Hungarian researchers from Budapest have discovered that human speech changes the way dogs’ brains work, even though the animals cannot speak themselves. The […]

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide, lying next to several pieces of tusk. It sat at the same level of ground as handaxes and cleavers […]

Vietnamese police have arrested 12 men accused of stealing nearly 2,700 cats during night-time raids in residential neighborhoods; the pets were taken to be slaughtered for food. Fur-removal machines, cat traps, and weighing scales were among the items confiscated during the investigation into the cat-theft gang in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese police and state […]

Animal behavior often seems predictable. Swallows follow the summer, ants build colonies, and most creatures run when they encounter a predator or wildfire. But nature keeps throwing researchers curveballs, sometimes from species humans have studied for centuries. Some of these discoveries reveal unexpected intelligence, while others expose physical abilities that sound nearly impossible. Orcas flee […]

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The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be missing the tip of its snout too. The coincidence has put a name on a species science did not know it had, Herugavialis cairensis, which spent almost a hundred years in […]

In the winter of 2010, residents of a small Arkansas town awoke to find thousands of dead birds littering their lawns. Just days earlier, tens of thousands of dead fish had surfaced in the same state. It was the kind of coincidence that fuels conspiracy theories, yet investigators ultimately traced the two disasters to entirely […]

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In 1982, 28 wild donkeys were released into the desert. Decades later, they have created an oasis in one of the most extreme places on Earth. Donkeys are far more than mere beasts of burden; these herbivorous mammals can benefit the environment in ways that would be difficult to achieve through human intervention. More than […]

Of all the animals shown in the tombs and art of ancient Egypt, very few have a name. Almost all of those that do are dogs. A handful of horses are named too, though far fewer survive. Cats, the animal most of us now associate with Egypt, are a different story. The literature offers only […]

Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida province (Catalonia, northeastern Spain). It had a long head, prominent cheekbones and formidable jaws lined with large, sharp teeth. Paleontologists call it the hell pig. The nickname misleads. Its kinship with modern pigs is […]

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all of them winged. That focus lines up with what historians already knew about him. Leonardo was fixated on the mechanics of flight, and scholars have long read his drawings of flying insects as studies feeding into his designs for […]

People have long told stories about the animals around them. Some explain a creature’s appearance or habits; others use an animal to explore how people should treat one another, the land, or their food. These stories belong to distinct traditions, and many are still told today. From an antelope-like teacher of farming to a kangaroo […]

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Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, the kingdom kept a chain of garrisons along its western frontier, watching for raids by Libyan tribes and, later, the loosely defined coalition of invaders known as the Sea Peoples. One of those tribes, […]

No person today has seen a living woolly mammoth. And unless a big tech company produces a clone, nobody ever will. But extinction did not shut the door on every elusive creature. Once in a while, one pops up and poses for a photograph. Some are huge, like the ghost elephants that survived decades of […]

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Three PETA activists were attacked by donkey drivers in the island of Santorini. The attackers insulted the animal activists and one of them hit one of the women in the face. The outrageous incident took place at the Karavolades straits on September 5, 2026, and the shocking images and footage were wide spread on social […]

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Picture the Colosseum, and the image that comes to mind is almost always the same: a lion bursting into the arena, the crowd roaring, a doomed man backing away. Film and popular history have fixated on that single moment for so long that almost nothing survives in the public imagination about how the animal actually […]

The study of extinct creatures has a major hurdle. There is no living dinosaur to observe. No cave lion to tag and track. So, when their stories are pieced together from scattered bones, theories, and a dash of popular media, we don’t always get the real picture. This list looks at times when new evidence […]

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A team of paleontologists has discovered on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, the first fossil footprint unequivocally attributable to a terrestrial mammal in the Eocene of Antarctica. It is a specimen barely two centimeters long, preserved as a natural mold in fine-grained volcanic sediment, providing direct evidence of the presence of a […]

The seasonal scarcity of fruits and vegetables drives bearded capuchin monkeys to significantly increase the hunting of small vertebrates, a behavior that researchers directly link to survival strategies that the ancestors of human beings may have used during periods of climatic instability. This is the main conclusion of a study published in PLOS One by […]