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Wild boar-pig hybrids now roaming radioactive Fukushima wasteland

The wild boars have no predators and have interbred with domestic pigs left behind by humans.

Feed the birds without worrying, new study says -- they won't get addicted to your food

You can keep on using the feeder in your backyard

Extinct Australian rodent is re-discovered, alive, after 150 years

Always good news to hear!

5,000 burgers a day: World’s first lab-grown meat factory opens up in Israel

It can produce up to 500 kilograms of cultured products per day.

Pets seem to have benefited from the pandemic overall, and cats may have benefited the most

Well, to be fair, they always land on their feet.

Scientists may have found how migrating birds sense Earth’s magnetic field

No GPS needed -- just use quantum chemistry.

Europe's woodlands want to shift north -- but birds are carrying them soutwards

Sometimes the plan is all set but logistics don't help you.

FossilFriday: "Living fossil" fish can live up to 100 years, scientists find

It's been around since the dinosaurs but we don't know all that much about it.

Climate change is coming for Europe's cocoa and coffee

The region relies on agricultural imports from around the world -- and with climate change kicking in, things are not looking well.

Clever crows can grasp the concept of 'zero'

Bird sized but not ‘bird-brained’.

Herd of adorable elephants caught on video napping in China

The sweetest thing you'll see all day.

Humans are worse than jays at spotting magic tricks

Don't believe your eyes.

Magawa the hero rat retires from mine-detecting job

A well-deserved retirement for an unassuming hero.

Poacher who killed dozens of tigers caught after 20 years

He was a local legend for having eluded the police for so long

Giant otter believed to be extinct decades ago is spotted in Argentina

The critter was spotted by a researcher while kayaking in a river.

Highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak hits 46 countries

The virus is spreading quickly among birds, leading to concerns that we won't be able to contain it.

These bizarre deep-sea fish have the blackest skin ever seen

The fish absorb up to 99.95% of the light that hits them.

In the 1940s, monkeys escaped from a farm. Their descendants now live in a thriving colony in Florida

The monkeys have settled in a thick mangrove forest near an urban airport.

Giant palm-sized moth found in Australian school

It's so big it can hardly fly.

No GPS needed: Sharks use Earth's magnetic field to navigate the seas

They truly are the kings of the seas.

UK formally recognizes animals as "sentient beings", rolling out new protection for pets and wild animals

Campaigners celebrate the move but have worries over the actual implementation of the plans.

We don't really know how many lions there are -- but researchers have an idea to count them

Although lions attract conservation efforts, we're not very good at counting them.

Cats love to sit in boxes. Even in invisible ones

Even if it's an optical illusion, 'if it fits, I sits'.

How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct

A cautionary tale we've failed to heed more than a century later.

Researchers create bizarre floating gadget that could save millions of seabirds

It's a floating buoy that has big looming eyes

Income inequality is driving wildlife trade around the world

The rich are paying the poor for wildlife. Maybe there's a lesson here.

Bats' superpower: they innately know the speed of sound

Maybe they're born with it... no, they're definitely born with it.

This is the world's most "instagrammable bird" -- and you'd never guess it

Researchers looked at almost 27,000 photos on the social media network to come to this conclusion.

Fish have been eating plastic since the 1950s. And it's getting worse

The consequences of our reliance on plastics

Just like bees, wasps are highly valuable insects, study finds

They are pollinators, pest controllers, and could provide us with new medicine.

How the jewel beetle's shiny shell helps it hide in plain sight

Their shimmery wings actually act as camouflage.

Tarantulas are *everywhere* and now researchers know why

Turns out, they emerged in the Cretaceous, when T-Rex still roamed the land.

Only 2-3% of Earth's land is ecologically intact, study finds

Areas in Siberia, Canada, the Amazon and the Sahara remain intact.

Ancient hyenas hunted in the Arctic millions of years ago

As if hyenas weren't scary enough.

First confirmed case of a vulture being poisoned by diclofenac in Europe

It's a highly toxic drug that has already been banned in many countries

A new species of bird discovered in Brazil has a green head, yellow belly, and a high risk of going extinct soon

I would have been fine with just the green head and yellow belly, honestly.

Want to avoid new pandemics? Preserving biodiversity is step one, research argues

The more diversity we have in nature, the better for our health.

Female monkeys use male "hired guns" to protect them from predators

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

Covid pandemic likely started from human exploitation of wildlife, WHO finds

A team of WHO scientists went to China and looked at the causes of the pandemic. This is their much-anticipated report.

The bald eagle, an American national symbol, is now also a successful conservation story

The bald eagle has made a fantastic recovery across the country

African elephants inch closer to extinction as poaching and habitat loss hit hard

Situation is bleak but some conservation efforts are working well

This is the first rib-eye steak that didn't require killing an animal

Delicious and cruelty-free meat.

Giant Australian flightless bird was 'extreme evolutionary experiment'

It had a massive two-foot beak that squeezed its brain.

How sperm whales outwitted whalers by sharing tactics between them

No wonder why they have the largest brain on the planet

After GameStop, redditors are pouring money into saving gorillas

Donations (especially massive ones like this one) are very helpful during difficult times.

France becomes last EU country to ban hunters from gluing birds to trees

It's time for the barbaric practice to come to an end.

This endangered bird is losing its song

A conservation project seeks to help this tiny but impressive bird.

Translucent glass frogs use a never before seen novel form of camouflage

Glass frogs are famous for their see-through skin that can even reveal the amphibians’ internal organs. Surprisingly, not too much attention has been given to this fascinating translucency — until now. An international team of researchers used a combination of field trials and computer-aided modeling and detection to analyze the glass frog’s translucent skin in […]

Wisdom the albatross has hatched yet another chick at the age of 70

She's the oldest known wild bird in history -- and she's pretty awesome!

Cuttlefish can delay gratification alongside humans, chimps, and some birds (so far)

Teach me your secrets, cuttlefish.

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