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Marine biologists discover 28 new deep sea species—and an old VHS tape
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (164+ words) Published Feb 4, 2026 3:03 PM EST Credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) have spotted rare Antarctic squid, discovered…...
How do you check a hummingbird for broken bones? Very carefully.
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (707+ words) Published Feb 4, 2026 11:00 AM EST Like clockwork, ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) start showing up at wildlife hospitals throughout the eastern United States every spring. The jewel-toned birds are often brought in after crashing into windows or being attacked by domestic cats....
Watch an albatross give its brand-new chick a very careful cleanup
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (228+ words) Published Feb 3, 2026 12:30 PM EST As thousands of birds nest in the warm sun of Midway Atoll, some tend to their new chicks. In a video posted by Friends of Midway Atoll (FOMA), one of the newest M'l" (Laysan albatross) chicks…...
Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (258+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 4:15 PM EST "For a long time, there have been very few things that we could say really characterize the transition from terrestrial dinosaurs to flying bird dinosaurs," explained Jingmai O'Connor, the associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's…...
Teen discovers Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil—almost 70 years ago
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (369+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 2:37 PM EST In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming a paleontologist himself. Over six decades later,…...
Locust swarms may meet their match in protein-enriched crops
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (417+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 10:45 AM EST YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images The researchers are among the first to demonstrate this type of outbreak management strategy with the Senegalese grasshopper," which is just one type of grasshopper that has locust swarming tendencies....
This wide-eyed baby primate is cute, cuddly—and venomous
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (398+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 9:00 AM EST As 2025 drew to a close, the Bronx Zoo in New York welcomed one of the most adorable animals you could imagine into the world: a pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)." In the picture shared by the…...
Groundhogs don’t poop during hibernation and 6 other random facts
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (662+ words) Published Feb 1, 2026 10:00 AM EST Despite advances in meteorological technology, we still keep a close eye on a rodent's burrow every February 2 for a weather forecast. While groundhogs'also called woodchucks'have been associated with the end of winter and beginning of spring…...
Caterpillars use tiny hairs to hear
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (408+ words) Published Feb 1, 2026 12:08 PM EST Have you ever walked into a room full of caterpillars? While the answer for most people is probably no, those of us who have may have noticed the insects reacting to the sound of your voice....
These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (489+ words) Published Jan 31, 2026 11:17 AM EST While Florida is perhaps best known for its beaches and wetlands, its landscape hosts other notable features: ridges. Millions of years ago, sea levels were higher than they are today, and these elevated areas of land…...