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Some creatures make a living by pretending to be something they’re not. (Like Halloween, every day!) In one high-flying example, zone-tailed…

By Moya Owens. Research Assistant | ANTENNA Project| Department of Botany All at Trinity celebrating World Bee Day. To celebrate…

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Including multiple universes, which might explain where certain cryptids come from – and return to. now read on…. [Disclaimer: The content…

After living in Occupied Minnesota and witnessing the many constitutional violations perpetrated by ICE, I have dragged Disapproving Rabbits Merch…

Discover MagazineBeasts in the Mist By Marguerite Holloway, September, 1999 Click here for the online article The first 4 paragraphs…

The ripest fruit and the youngest leaves grow at the ends of branches, which is exactly where a branch stops…

I should change the name of this blog to be ‘Yearly Jack-O-Lantern Design Blog.’Yep. Still doing this. Here’s this year’s…

I have just returned from a month’s gallivanting around mainland China. It’s taken me 20 years to get there but…

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum (2007), Forge Trade, 320 pp, paperback and Kindle. Dr Jeff Meldrum…

A vertebrate with one of the longest necks When paleontologists uncovered the fossils of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis in the Middle Triassic…

I should point out that endolymphatic glands are not unique to gekkotans – they’re actually widespead within squamates – and enlarged neck…

Last week, I gave you an object from the Dead Zoo that presents a genuine mystery: This premaxilla and fragment…

Anolis grahami aquarum (male) As I do like reading about field trips or merely observations from vacations where anoles have…

Co-author: Irina Rotenko In April–May 2026 we searched for wolf dens with pups across approximately 1.7 thousand km² of Naliboki…

Just over two years ago I reported the ‘likely’ eradication of feral pigs from Australia’s third-largest (4,405 km2) island —…

My name is Colin Hadley, the new RA for Talek camp. My research background is largely within the scope of…

We asked several of our writers the same questions. Here are the answers to the one above. — I’ve found…

Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From…

Every three to four years, jellyfish researchers from around the world come together for some serious fun: the International Jellyfish…

In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the…

 An AI-generated image of a blue-feathered harpy & a blue-denim biker dancing their passionate pas de deux d’amour (created by…

Kelly, K., Megía-Palma, R., Dajčman, U., Blázquez-Castro, S., Pie, M.R. and Žagar, A. (2025). Environmental drivers of scale morphology in…

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Image: WoRMS Editorial BoardGonionemus vertens Jellyfish are known to be inveterate drifters. They love nothing more than to hang out…

The sponges are structurally primitive animals, very ancient as a group and only distantly related to the animals of other…

If, like me, you live in the UK then you will have seen this spider. I am pretty confident that…

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This blog originally appeared as a guest post for The Conservation Project. Kids who care about wildlife and wild places tend to…

2nd year PhD Student in Botany. Carbon dioxide tracker and nature adventurer. Hi, I’m Eleanor, and I am currently studying…

Meet “Brunswick” And 8 Other Bone Chilling Great White Sharks Who Have Visited Our Jersey Shore943thepoint.comCats are predators and natural hunters, but…

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I headed out a week prior with a friend who had never seen the rookery to scout for the event.…

This article contains my fleshed out thoughts on why Bigfoot/Sasquatch are so hard to find. I’ve said on numerous occasions…

A wild infant marmoset spent ten months living with a troop of black-striped capuchin monkeys in Brazil. It wasn’t tolerated.…

2025’s Pumpkin designs are here!(Click to See Full Resolution)Happy Halloween Everyone! As always, I want to see your carvings if…

My amazing mother who is now 80, came to celebrate my 50th birthday. I should already be dead. I am…

The yeti, as every schoolboy knows, was introduced to the outside world in 1921 when Charles Howard-Bury,…

In the remote depths of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, scientists have found something astonishing: the world’s largest known fish…

All in all, Snake Men is a highly entertaining, well-written overview of one furiously over-active taxonomic vandal in particular and…

Last week I gave you this mystery skull to have a go at identifying: I suspected this one wouldn’t be…

Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I’ve spent my entire…

Co-author Irina Rotenko In this extended post, we analyse multi‑annual (2000–2026) changes in the local badger population in Naliboki Forest,…

Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing.…

 Jambo! My name is Gaurav Singh-Varma and I am the new research assistant for the Mara Hyena Project based at…

Highlights Tanzania is one of the top birding destinations in the world. The country boasts an extraordinary wealth of birdlife; in…

We are SO happy to announce that Zooniverse has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 BILLION classifications contributed by volunteers!To give…

Last month, the Manet team at the Department of Natural History welcomed colleagues from Akvaplan NIVA Bergen and the Institute…

Sir Edward Bosc Sladen spent much of his career as a soldier/colonial administrator/diplomat in Burma. He was the natural choice…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

Rosciano, N.G., Ojeda, V., Polito, M.J. and Yorio, P. (2025). I know what you ate last breeding season: anthropogenic food…

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Demons get such a bad rap these days. And… all other days, I suppose. But look at this cutie! Surely…

Thinking about how animals mate, one might at first think about the way that mammals do it. But what do…

If you follow any wildlife or nature accounts on social media, then you may have noticed an influx of posts…

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Let’s talk about green parenting! 🌱   If you have kids, convenience rules … WE GET IT! But if you’re looking…

By co-editors Eleanor Lampard & Aoife Molloy And we’re finishing off the academic term with our annual botany and zoology…

Malay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the rainforests of Southeast Asia, blissfully grazing on…

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday Okay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may…

Incidentally, as I was doing all this deep diving on the red-bellied woodpecker tonight, I noted that All About Birds…

A data scientist thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bigfoot ― not by searching for the creature out in the…

There is a mother orangutan at Tuanan Research Station in Central Kalimantan named Mindy. On one afternoon in February, her…

It’s that time of year again! Here’s this year’s contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:(click to enlarge)It seems like…

Next month I’m headed on an expedition to THE ARCTIC!!!!!! When I told one of my best friends where my…

When Roger Met Patty by William Munns (2014), Createspace Independent Publishing, Platform, 510 pp, paperback and Kindle. In October 1967…

For decades, scientists have wrestled with a simple but profound puzzle: how did life’s genetic code first connect with proteins?…