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A dolphin calf using a shell as a tool in the Great Sandy Marine Park in October 2025.
Biology

Dolphins Use Seashells to Scoop Up Fish and Eat Them in Rare Hunting Behavior

The sea mammals may be passing on this technique to their young calves.

A photographer captures the aftermath of an orca hunt in Mexico.
Biology

This Orca Hunt Left Behind a Brutal Scene—and the Photo Just Won an Award

The 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year highlight the hidden lives of sea creatures navigating a rapidly changing...

Rex the Crocodile at the Sydney Wildlife World in Darling Harbour.
Biology

Crocodiles Evolved Backwards From Warm-Blooded Species to Cold-Blooded Killers

A new analysis of fossilized bones from crocodiles’ archosaur ancestors suggest they reverted back to cold-blood to become...

A round stingray blends in with the tidal flat sand of the Morro Bay State Marine Reserve along the central California coast.
Biology

California’s Beaches Are Swarming With Stingrays This Summer, and Thousands of People Are Getting Stung

Tropical stingray attacks have doubled at some beaches along California coasts, with lifeguards reporting thousands of new cases.

In China’s Yunnan province the mushroom Lanmaoa asiatica is known as “Jian shou qing.” When undercooked, it can cause hallucinations of tiny people dancing all over objects in view.
Biology

Scientists Identify Mushroom That Makes You Hallucinate ‘Tiny People’

Mycologists have identified a species of mushroom that induces hallucinations of dozens and sometimes hundreds of tiny people....

Mycelium growing on a log in a beech forest.
Biology

Scientists Don’t Actually Know How Long Fungi Can Live. The Reasons Are Kind of Weird

Fungi are really important to science, but aging them correctly is much more difficult than you'd think.

The skull of the Chiniquodon theotonicus individual that was used for this study.
Biology

This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth

Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers...

The cottonmouth snake removed from the high school student's football helmet.
Biology

High Schooler Plays Football With Venomous Snake in His Helmet for an Hour, Somehow Escapes Unscathed

The cottonmouth had likely been looking for a dark spot to digest its big meal.

Image of spinning CT scanned dodo skull (specimen OUMNH-ZC-11605 - the “Oxford Dodo”) made transparent, with brain visible.
Biology

Scientists Studied the Only 3 Dodo Skulls in Existence. Turns Out We Owe Them an Apology

“Calling them ‘stupid’ for being naive makes it sound like they deserved to go extinct, which is so...

A ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
Biology

Vets Traced a Lemur’s Fatal Herpes Infection Back to a Yoga Class

HSV-1 typically only causes cold sores in humans, but it can be very dangerous to some of our...