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Before the arrival of humans—and the rats, cats, and other predators that we brought—New Zealand was an idyllic haven for birds. Without ground-dwelling mammalian hunters to bother them, many of the local species lost the ability to fly. There’s the…

From birds that remove their babies’ “dirty diapers” to crows that store their tools, nature is full of orderly species. An eastern bluebird flies away from its nest with a sac of its babies’ poop in Florida. Kids, listen up:…

There’s a new poaching hotspot, and it’s not where people expected. A chunk of territory in southern Africa about the size of France has long been considered one of the last strongholds of the African elephant. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation…

Commuting to and from work every day on public transportation can be a miserable experience, but imagine how much better it would be if a cute cat was your fellow passenger. Apparently, that can definitely happen if you reside in…

To Hannah Wood’s naked eye, it looked like the tiny spider in the pile of dead leaves in Chile wasn’t doing much of anything. Wood, then a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was in South America to…