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A magnetic resonance image of the patient’s brain by fluid-attenuated inversion recovery showing an enhancing right frontal lobe lesion (left). A live third-stage larval form of Ophidascaris robertsi removed from the patient’s right frontal lobe (right).
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‘Alive and wriggling’ worm survived in woman’s body and brain for at least a year

By Laura Baisas

small dog in a plaid dog jacket in a corn field
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The best dog coats of 2024

By Billy Cadden

Famous, debunked black and white 'Surgeon's Photo' of Loch Ness Monster
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The largest search of Loch Ness in more than 50 years will deploy drones and hydrophones

By Andrew Paul

Two Emperor penguin chicks standing on sea ice in Antarctica.
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Emperor penguins suffer ‘unprecedented’ breeding failure as sea ice disappears

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing three abelisaurs on a beach, with a dead dinosaur and another smaller dinosaur. Fossils have been found of several types of abelisaur showing the diversity of dinosaurs in Morocco at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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T. rex cousins with shorter arms were thriving right up until the asteroid hit

By Laura Baisas

A hogfish swims near the Florida Keys. It has spikes on top and a pointy snout.
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Hogfish ‘see’ using their skin

By Laura Baisas

This is what happens when feral cows take over a remote Alaskan island
Agriculture

This is what happens when feral cows take over a remote Alaskan island

By Jude Isabella/Hakai Magazine

A lineup of the best handheld vacuums on a white background
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The best handheld vacuums of 2024

By Carsen Joenk

The best invisible dog fences composited
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The best invisible dog fences

By John Alexander

Illustration of two elephants on one side and an ant holding up other ants on the other side.
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Is bigger better? Not when it comes to the world’s strongest animals.

By Annie Roth

A coral reef just off of an island in Palau. Coral reefs in Palau provide critical habitats for a number of species and provide a storm barrier.
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Some Pacific coral reefs can keep pace with a warming ocean

By Laura Baisas

The truth behind animal resistance memes
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The truth behind animal resistance memes

By Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond / The Conversation

Elkhorn coral fragments in lab
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The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from a historic heatwave

By Michael Childress/The Conversation

Dead humback whale on beach from aerial view
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Dead whales and dinosaur eggs: 7 fascinating images by researchers

By Popular Science Team

Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) on a flower in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on August 27, 2022.
Agriculture

These invasive bugs are a nightmare for Washington’s cherries and hops

By Natalia Mesa/High Country News

A many tentacled feather star.
Animals

Behold a 20-armed, strawberry-shaped Antarctic sea creature

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Members of the Dutch Tall Ship Oosterschelde wave goodbye from the quay in Rotterdam on August 4, 2023. The Rotterdam ship departs for a two-year world tour that scientist Charles Darwin made two centuries ago.
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Mission to recreate Darwin’s scientific Beagle voyage sets sail

By Laura Baisas

Artist impression of the stem pinniped Potamotherium valletoni swimming in his natural, freshwater environment. Grasses and plants grow below the animal, that has whiskers, legs, and flippers.
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Hungry seals may have begun following their whiskers 23 million years ago

By Laura Baisas

White dog inhaling colorful waves that represent smells. Illustrated.
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Why your dog needs to smell the world

By Brandon Keim

A new snake species named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was discovered during an expedition in Peru in May 2022. The copper scaled snake is seen here coiled on some brown grass.
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Harrison Ford’s latest namesake is an Andean snake species

By Laura Baisas

Four bivalve species found along the Maine coast, including the Northern Quahog, Eastern Oyster, a steamer clam, and a blue mussel presented together in a bed of seaweed at low tide.
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Popular shellfish resist extinction in surprising ways

By Laura Baisas

The best dog cameras of 2024
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The best dog cameras of 2024

By Stacey L. Nash

Keep your dog healthy and happy with the best dog toys.
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The best dog toys of 2024

By Maddy Morris

A gray wolf howling in the woods. The wolves come in many colors including white, tan, black, and brown.
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A new pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming Northern California

By Laura Baisas

Talpa hakkariensis, found in the Hakkari region of southeastern Turkey, was identified as a new species of mole, highly distinctive in terms of both its morphology and DNA. The mole is peeking out of an underground burrow.
Animals

These moles may have been hiding for 3 million years

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an ancient whale against a sea-blue background.
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This tiny, 8-foot long whale swam off Egypt’s coast 41 million years ago

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park, with steam rising and mountains in the distance. Temperatures at Yellowstone’s famous hot springs can reach 198 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Don’t lick the toads and other things to avoid at national parks

By Laura Baisas

Keep your pooch warm and safe in one of the best dog houses.
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The best dog houses of 2024

By Julian Vittorio

A male peacock displaying his signature blue and green plumage.
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Miami suburb turns to vasectomies to solve its peacock problem

By Laura Baisas

A man is looking in a glass case of coprolites collected in Nong Yakong village, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand.
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Rare parasites found in 200 million-year-old reptile poop

By Laura Baisas

taxidermied two-headed goat kid
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Life after death never looked so beautiful

By Ted Cavanaugh, Sara Kiley Watson

Sea turtle robot crawling across sand
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This waddling robot could guide baby turtles to the sea

By Andrew Paul

Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimp. The ancient lizard widely opens its skinny snout and large mouth to swallow a large ball of shrimp.
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The planet’s first filter feeder could be this extinct marine reptile

By Laura Baisas

A Heliconius butterfly with black, orange, and white on its wings.
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Butterflies can remember specific flower foraging routes

By Laura Baisas

best bird feeders
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The best bird feeders of 2024

By Julian Vittorio

A long and skinny silver trumpetfish uses a colorful parrotfish as camouflage.
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Trumpetfish use other fish as camouflage

By Laura Baisas

Crab in ocean reaching with pincher.
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As oceans become more acidic, creatures could struggle to smell

By Ethan Freedman/Hakai Magazine

A woodpecker uses a bird feeder. Interest in bird feeding surged in 115 countries during early COVD-19 lockdowns.
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People around the world got really into feeding birds during the pandemic

By Laura Baisas

An artist's rendition of the Perucetus colossus.
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This giant sea cow-like whale may have been the heaviest creature to ever live on Earth

By Sara Kiley Watson

Porites rus corals and scuba diver
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Coral is reproducing in broad daylight

By Chloe Glad/Hakai Magazine

A moth called a tobacco budworm on a green leaf. Moths like the tobacco budworm use pheromone signaling to find mates.
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How male tobacco budworm moths found their perfect cologne

By Laura Baisas

Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea.
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Jellyfish may have been roaming the seas for at least 500 million years

By Laura Baisas

Side view of woman's hand feeding horseback on sunny day
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Why studying horses could help humans stay healthy, too

By Jane Manfredi/The Conversation

A bee on a peach rose. Understanding how flowering plants and bees evolved together can help inform conservation efforts for pollinators and how to keep their populations healthy.
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The world’s earliest bees may have called Gondwana home

By Laura Baisas

wolf pack on rock formation
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Howls, butt sniffs, and pee sprays: understanding animal languages

By Eva Meijer/MIT Press Reader

A scanning electron picture of a female Panagrolaimus kolymaensis nematode.
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Recently awoken 46,000-year-old nematodes already have 100 generations of babies

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of Solnhofia parsonsi’s environment in an Upper Jurassic lagoon 150 million years ago in what is now Lower Bavaria. The turtle swims in a shallow body of water, with fish swimming near it and pterosaurs flying above.
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150 million-year-old turtle ‘pancake’ found in Germany

By Laura Baisas

LAPD K-9 handler wears a protective bite suit during a demonstration with a police dog
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Police say dogs help solve crimes. Little evidence supports that.

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

A pink river dolphin, or boto, displaying aerial behavior in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve.
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Eavesdropping on pink river dolphins could help save them

By Laura Baisas

Red7Marine kittiwake offshore wind farm habitat
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Artificial nests could give endangered birds a home near new offshore wind farm

By Andrew Paul

A baby lionhead rabbit sits in the grass. These domesticated rabbits are named after the lion-like mane around their faces.
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Florida suburb is overrun by fluffy rabbits after breeder goes rogue

By Laura Baisas

Get up close to eagles, owls, hawks, and more with the best bird watching binoculars.
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The best bird-watching binoculars in 2024

By Charlotte Nash

A kākāpō chick. The birds are are large flightless parrots from New Zealand who are masters of camouflage and known for a booming call.
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A flightless parrot is returning to mainland New Zealand after a 40-year absence

By Laura Baisas

deep sea bubbles
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The key to bringing deep sea samples up to the coast? An underwater freezer.

By Annie Roth / Hakai Magazine

American actor Richard Dreyfuss (left) (as marine biologist Hooper) and British author and actor Robert Shaw (as shark fisherman Quint) look off the stern of Quint's fishing boat the 'Orca' at the terrifying approach of the mechanical giant shark dubbed 'Bruce' in a scene from the film 'Jaws' directed by Steven Spielberg, 1975.
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Why the creators of ‘Jaws’ regretted making sharks the monsters

By Laura Baisas

parasitic horsehair worm
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‘Brainwashing’ parasites inherit a strange genetic gap

By Maddi Langweil

A saber tooth cat fossil is displayed during a press preview of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on June 4, 2019.
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Paleontologists discover two new sabertooth cat species

By Laura Baisas

Cod fish heads
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No guts left behind: Iceland’s quest to repurpose fish waste

By Lela Nargi/Hakai Magazine

Illustration showing Repenomamus robustus as it attacks Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis moments before a volcanic debris flow buries them both about 125 million years ago.
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This badger-like mammal may have died while trying to eat a dinosaur

By Laura Baisas

Pair of bluefin tuna strung up on a fishing crane on the coast of Spain
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Who caught the first bluefin tuna?

By Karen Pinchin

A green sea turtle swims in the ocean.
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Hungry green sea turtles have eaten in the same seagrass meadows for about 3,000 years

By Laura Baisas

Bull elk in the wilderness
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Like whales and bats, elk have regional dialects

By Kylie Mohr / High Country News

An artist’s illustration of Alligator munensis, which is skimming the water with its eye out and surrounded by lush green trees. The large tooth sockets towards the back of its mouth suggest this extinct gator could crush shells and may have snacked on hard-shelled prey like snails.
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Extinct snub-nosed gator had big teeth for crushing snails

By Laura Baisas

Ocean waves crashing.
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How climate change is pushing oxygen out of the world’s oceans

By Carla Delgado

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