Zoology
How to Not Get Mauled on Your Hike This Summer
A new study goes deep on the interaction between activities and hostile wildlife
Watch Bison Fend Off a Wolf Attack on a Newborn Calf
They’re not usually considered prey for wolves
There May Be Three Times More Insect Species Than We Realized
The overwhelming majority are unknown to science
Evidence of Recently Discovered Bat Behavior Found Hiding in Plain Sight in Renaissance Painting
The Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder captured the bird-eating behavior in 1611
Four New Chameleon Species Found in Tropical “Sky Islands”
Two of which are named after pioneering female scientists
How Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long Sperm
If human sperm were a foot long, fruit fly sperm would span three football fields
Orangutans Seek Out Medicinal Plants
In fact, they’re some of the same plants used pharmacologically by local Indigenous people
Qatari Sand Cats Caught on Camera for the First Time
The elusive creatures were thought to have vanished
How to Dodge a Mountain Lion
A new look at puma-human encounters in the mountains of California
Saving a Tiny Endangered Porpoise One Pixel at a Time
Only a handful of vaquitas exist in the wild, but now one is preserved in unprecedented digital detail
