Zoology
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
Goblin Sharks Caught on Camera in Their Natural Habitat for the First Time
Two of these mysterious sharks were recorded by deep-sea submersibles
Inside the Largest Whale Graveyard on Earth
Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years
