Pigeons in Paris are sometimes missing a toe and now researchers think they know why: human hair. Bird-watchers in Paris have for years noticed something odd about the city’s pigeons: Many of the omnipresent avians are missing one or more…
The pup still had its milk teeth, suggesting it was under 2 months old when it died. A young pup that spent 18,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost looks remarkably lifelike and pettable — for a freeze-dried mummy. From its…
A photographer documents the creative architecture the Swiss have made to help their feline friends get around. SWITZERLAND MAY BE the best place in the world to be a housecat. They have freedom, autonomy—and their own cat-specific architecture. Be it…
The whale stranded while still alive and had been dead for about 48 hours before experts with the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme performed a necropsy. When workers with a whale strandings agency in Scotland performed a necropsy on a…
Jeff Fobb holds a Burmese python as he speaks to the media at the start of the Python Challenge in 2013 in Davie, Florida. The state of Florida is preparing to host the Super Bowl in January … and to…
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China pic.twitter.com/ppu9qidp3EDecember 9, 2019 Two piglets recently born in China look like average swine on the outside, but on the inside, they are (a very small) part monkey. A…
Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here’s what we know. WHY WOULD AN apex ocean predator eat gloves? Or rope? Or plastic cups? How does a whale end up with more than 90 kilograms…
Millions of pounds of antimicrobials end up in livestock each year, seeping into the environment and harming species like dung beetles. SWOOPE, VIRGINIA – The cows on Bobby Whitescarver’s farm can wander through his lush pastures pretty much as they…
A program in Panama breeds, sterilises, and releases 20 million screwworm flies a week to protect livestock from flesh-eating larvae. This is how it works. JUST EAST OF the Panama Canal, tucked between patches of rainforest, farmers’ fields, and the…
Gruesome new video shows mice attacking an adult albatross on the World Heritage Site of Gough Island in the South Atlantic. It’s an alarming new behavior from the invasive mice, which have long been known to attack albatross chicks and…
House mice that were introduced to Gough Island in the South Atlantic are attacking and killing both adult and baby albatross. Previously, scientists on the British island captured video showing the mice attacking and devouring Tristan albatross chicks, but this…
Female orcas go through menopause, living up to 90 years—a longstanding mystery. Now, a new study suggests there’s a reason why. The orca is one of only a handful of mammals known to go through menopause. The reason has remained…