What happened to Big Betty? Evanston residents are concerned that their neighborhood’s moose are looking a little worse this spring. Big Betty is a moose known to many people in this southwestern Wyoming city. They often find her resting in the garden, sometimes with a calf beside her. When Shasta Sharp noticed Big Betty in … Read more
Michael Reichmuth, a fisheries biologist with the National Park Service, often snorkels in the cold waters of national parks and coastlines in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the time, he’s snorkeling and researching endangered juvenile coho salmon for work. He’s been in the job for more than 20 years and has seen a … Read more
The animal kingdom is driven by passion. Finding a partner is a fundamental part of survival, whether it’s a permanent bond that lasts a lifetime, like a swan, or a short, intense, fleeting, whirlwind romance like a jaguar or snow leopard. We’ve collected some of the best stories about romance and courtship from the world … Read more
April 2, 2026 3 minimum read Add to Googleadd science ‘Amazing’ fossils reset the clock as complex animals evolved A treasure trove of fossils from China shows the Cambrian explosion may not have been as explosive as scientists once believed Jackie Flynn Mogensen Edited by Claire Cameron Fossil of a Camburnian deuterostome and its reconstruction … Read more
For many people, even encountering one wild crocodile is too many. If you live in Florida, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered alligators, especially in south-central Florida, where they’re most concentrated. However, they can be found in all 67 counties of Florida. Unlike their crocodile relatives, crocodiles prefer freshwater lakes, swamps, and slow-flowing rivers. Lake … Read more
For more than 50 years, people have been telling strange stories about tiny fish called shellfish.Parachneria tissi) Climb the waterfall. Researchers have now announced that they have filmed this behavior for the first time. Their discovery is scientific report. Pacific Kiwele Mutambara, researcher at the University of Australia Lubumbashi, Emmanuel Vreven, an ichthyologist at Belgium’s … Read more
The sea is glassy calm and sharks swim below us. And one more thing. My 11-year-old daughter, in the kayak just in front of me, screamed in a mixture of fear and surprise as she watched the spotted fish roam below us, its tail clicking in the greenish shallows. After all, this is what we … Read more
For the first time in decades, brown bear I gave birth to a baby in Lithuania. Wildlife cameras captured a mother and her cubs in a forest in the northwestern part of the country, marking the first time the species has been seen breeding for generations on Lithuanian soil. Raimonas Daša, chairman of the Lithuanian … Read more
The state of Maine recently released a 10-year blueprint for protecting and managing native flora and fauna, from the smallest beetle to popular giants like elk to apex predators like great white sharks. “Maine’s most vulnerable wildlife is at a crossroads,” state Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner Judy Camuso said in a statement last Friday. … Read more
NASA successfully launched the Artemis II mission, the first manned mission near the moon since the Apollo program ended in 1972. The 322-foot Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday at 6:35 pm ET (10:35 GMT), sending the Orion crew capsule on a 10-day journey. Recommended stories list of … Read more