This Is the First Colossal Squid Filmed in the Deep Sea—And It’s a Baby!
A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent expedition, and it turned out to be a baby
Why Some Animals Live for Only Days and Others Live for Thousands of Years
Scientists are studying why some species live so much longer than others
The Hidden Social Lives of Male African Elephants
Long thought to be loners, male African elephants turn out to have surprisingly rich social lives
Google Is Training AI to Speak Dolphin
Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins
This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry
Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across the Sahara
Crows Are Good at Geometry. Don’t Look So Surprised
Crows can tell the shapes of stars from those of moons and symmetrical quadrilaterals from unsymmetrical ones, new results show
Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’
This discovery adds to a growing list of how animals talk with their urine
Did Scientists Actually De-Extinct the Dire Wolf?
Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype
American Lifespans, Monkeys That Yodel, Measles, and More
States sue HHS for public health cuts, measles cases continue to rise, and a study finds Americans live shorter lives compared with their European counterparts.
Meet the fluffy, funky and fabulous native bees that call the U.S. home
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees
Bonobos’ Complex Calls Share an Extraordinary Trait with Human Language
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language
Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain
The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.