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Eels Are Victims of Noise Pollution
Critically endangered European eels get distracted by man-made noise, making them more likely to get eaten by a predator
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From Panting to Pooping, 8 Weird Ways Animals Keep Cool
While you (and horses) are busy sweating buckets, some animals have evolved bizarre ways to keep cool
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Send Your Pets’ Remains To Space
A new service offers to launch your pet’s ashes into space
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How Solar-Powered Recycled Smartphones Could Save the Rainforest
A Silicon Valley non-profit is ready to give the forests of Africa and the Amazon ears to listen for loggers—and the ability to phone the authorities
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Sometimes Bumblebees Just Want to Do Their Own Thing
Bumblebees are strong communicators, but they don’t always listen
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Social Networking Prairie Dog Style
Prairie dog kisses might help spread the plague, and stopping the most promiscuous rodents could curb that disease’s reach
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Why Is Anyone Opposed to Reintroducing American Bison to the Wild?
The government wants to release some of Yellowstone’s bison to the wild
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Lady Worms, Beware: Pick the Wrong Mate, End Up Dead
Sperm from the wrong species of worm will eat through a female worm’s innards
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This Deep-Sea Octopus Tended Her Eggs For More Than Four Years
It appears that the octopus mom also largely refrained from eating over those 53 months
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Scientists Decode African Penguin Calls
Researchers are trying to figure out how “jackass” penguins—nicknamed for their braying vocalizations—communicate
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How a Flock of 400 Flying Birds Manages to Turn in Just Half a Second
The birds’ patterns of movement are surprisingly similar to that of superfluid helium
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This Guy Simultaneously Raised a Chimp and a Baby in Exactly the Same Way to See What Would Happen
When treated as a human, the baby chimp acted like one—until her physiology and development held her back
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This Market Along the Burma-China Border Is a Veritable Noah’s Ark of Critically Endangered Animals
Photographer Alex Hofford exposed the extent of the wildlife trade openly taking place at this infamous market
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Playing Outside Enhances Kids’ Love of Nature and Animals
Exposure to the great outdoors could also influence kids’ ideas about the importance of conservation
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Papa Mongooses Learn Not to Try So Hard When Raising Babies
If father mongooses push themselves to extremes raising young, then they won’t work as hard the next time around
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Offshore Wind Farms Offer Seals a Smorgasbord of Fish
Wind farms could intentionally be fashioned into artificial reefs to further increase their value to wildlife
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Raising Beef Uses Ten Times More Resources Than Poultry, Dairy, Eggs or Pork
If you want to help the planet but can’t bring yourself to give up meat entirely, eliminating beef from your diet is the next-best thing
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Suburban Skunks are on the Rise
Grand Rapids, Michigan, is basically enveloped in a cloud of stink
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