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'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
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Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries
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How the mystery origins of hairy little Yakutian horses were uncovered in Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld'
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Rare fossils in New Mexico reveal dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid annihilated them all
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Venomous snake strikes captured in extreme detail through high-speed videos for first time
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Are there any countries with no mosquitoes?
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Can you actually get high from licking a toad?
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Jane Goodall revolutionized animal research, but her work had some unintended consequences. Here's what we've learned from them.
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The viral 'Chicago Rat Hole' wasn't actually made by a rat, scientists claim
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Haunting image of a rare hyena lurking in a ghost town wins 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award
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Can you actually get high from licking a toad?
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How do frogs breathe and drink through their skin?
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Wandering salamander: The tree‑climbing amphibian with a blood‑powered grip
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Fungus is wiping out frogs. These tiny saunas could save them.
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'It's risky for male frogs out there': Female frog drags and attempts to eat screaming male
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'Lovely freak of nature': Mutant blue frog hops into wildlife sanctuary workshop
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'Kermit the Frog' creature that lived 270 million years ago looked like a 'stout salamander' with 'cartoonish' grin
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Why is a mushroom growing on a frog? Scientists don't know, but it sure looks weird
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Dinosaur-era frog found fossilized with belly full of eggs and was likely killed during mating
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Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs
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'Size really does matter'Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia
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Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footage
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'Backward' brain of ancient sea creature hints spider ancestors evolved in the ocean
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QuizSpider quiz: Test your web of knowledge
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Cannibalistic spiderlings won't hunt their siblings even if they're starving
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Multiple species of ticks in the US can transmit red meat allergy, CDC reports reveal
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Asian hermit spider: The arachnid that gets stronger after ejecting its own penis
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Watch enormous deep-sea spiders crawl around sub-Antarctic seafloor
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Fossil of huge penguin that lived 3 million years ago discovered in New Zealand — what happened to it?
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Rare blue-and-green hybrid jay spotted in Texas is offspring of birds whose lineages split 7 million years ago
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'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
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Best bird song identification apps in 2025 — Identify bird calls and improve your avian knowledge
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Kākāpō: The chonky parrot that can live almost 100 years
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Japanese quail: The bird with weird sperm foam, a post-sex strut and a spot in space history
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Reference14 of the biggest birds on Earth
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Crows: Facts about the clever birds that live all over the world
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How do migrating birds know where they're going?
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A mysterious barrier in the Atlantic divides weird deep-sea jellyfish cousins
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Thousands of strange, blobby creatures are washing up on California beaches
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Giant phantom jelly: The 33-foot-long ocean giant that has babies out of its mouth
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Watch 'spaghetti monster' with dozens of pink-tipped sausage legs swimming near Nazca Ridge
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Otherworldly video captures rare jellyfish with a hitchhiker in its bell
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Tiny, highly venomous jellyfish stings 2 people in the middle of the ocean — forcing them to be airlifted to hospital
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Newly discovered jellyfish is a 24-eyed weirdo related to the world's most venomous marine creature
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Alien-like giant phantom jellyfish spotted in frigid waters off Antarctica
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Thousands of cannonball jellyfish wash ashore after swarming North Carolina’s Outer Banks
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Watch robot crab 'Wavy Dave' get attacked in claw-waving contest with real crabs
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Animal kingdom's most powerful puncher generates a 'phononic shield' to protect itself
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New supergiant 'Darth Vader' sea bug discovered in South China Sea — and it's absolutely massive
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Do crabs feel pain?
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Large, ghostly white crab-like predator discovered at the bottom of the Atacama Trench
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1-in-100 million 'cotton candy' lobster caught off New Hampshire alive and well at aquarium
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'You can see its guts and things': Weird see-through crustacean with giant eyes discovered off the Bahamas
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Crabs keep evolving to go from the sea to the land — and back again
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More than 10 billion snow crabs starved to death off the coast of Alaska. But why?
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Rare fossils in New Mexico reveal dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid annihilated them all
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New species of Jurassic 'sword dragon' could help solve an evolutionary mystery
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Mysterious 160 million-year-old creature unearthed on Isle of Skye is part lizard, part snake
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95 million-year-old 'tiny, tiny skull' from never-before-seen crocodile-like creature discovered in Montana
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Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina
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Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
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Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent Jurassic storm 150 million years ago
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Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries
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'So weird': Ankylosaur with 3-foot spikes sticking out of its neck discovered in Morocco
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Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
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Fishers discover first-of-its-kind bright orange shark with two rare conditions in Caribbean
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Thousands of bumblebee catfish captured climbing waterfall in never-before-seen footage
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How to watch Shark Week 2025: Live TV & streaming schedule for Discovery special
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Shark Week team discovers unusual 'black makos' off California coast
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Why do sharks freeze when flipped upside down?
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Pacific spiny lumpsucker: The adorable little fish with a weird suction cup resembling human teeth
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Pelican eel: The midnight zone 'gulper' with a giant mouth to swallow animals bigger than itself
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Do sharks make noises? An accidental discovery might just answer that question
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Are there any countries with no mosquitoes?
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'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
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Creepy new giant insect may be the heaviest ever recorded in Australia
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Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world's animal species
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Invasive Asian needle ants are surging in US Southeast — and their bite can trigger anaphylaxis
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Bone collector caterpillar: The very hungry caterpillar of your nightmares
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'A relationship that could horrify Darwin': Mindy Weisberger on the skin-crawling reality of insect zombification
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'The parasite was in the driver's seat': The zombie ants that die gruesome deaths fit for a horror movie
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How many species of insects are there on Earth?
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Jane Goodall revolutionized animal research, but her work had some unintended consequences. Here's what we've learned from them.
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The viral 'Chicago Rat Hole' wasn't actually made by a rat, scientists claim
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Some naked mole rats are designated toilet cleaners, study suggests
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Asian golden cat: The 'feline of many costumes' that plucks birds before eating them
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From tool use to warfare — here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees
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Chimps eat fruit full of alcohol, but no, they don't get drunk
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Mystery creature found in 'forbidden cloud forest' of Peru is new species of marsupial
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Jaguar in Brazil smashes record for the species' longest documented swim
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Grumpy-looking Pallas's cat photographed by camera trap in stunning photo from eastern Himalayas
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'We completely freaked out': Orcas are attacking boats in Europe again
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Ancient predatory whale with big eyes and razor-sharp teeth was 'deceptively cute'
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No, blue whales aren't going silent off California. Here's why.
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Watch a pod of orcas pretending to drown one of their own in macabre training session
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Ancient whale 'graveyard' discovered under melting Russian glacier
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Wild orcas offer humans food. Could they be trying to make friends — or manipulate us?
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Dwarf sperm whale: The 'pint-size whales' that gush gallons of intestinal fluid when surprised
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Still frame from video footage recorded in the Kvænangen fjords, Norway, in 2024, showing the tongue-nibbling interaction between two free-ranging killer whales.
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Salmon-hat wearing orcas also give each other massages with kelp, scientists discover
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Why is the blue-ringed octopus so deadly?
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Haunting blood-red squid with large hooks drifts through Antarctic ocean's midnight zone in world-first video
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Scaly-foot snail: The armor-plated hermaphrodite with a giant heart that lives near scalding deep-sea volcanoes and never eats
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Watch elusive New Zealand snail lay an egg through a 'genital pore' in its neck
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Cuttlefish appear to wave at each other in what researchers think could be a form of communication
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Elusive colossal squid finally caught on camera 100 years after discovery in world 1st footage — and it's tiny
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Octopuses: Facts about the 8-armed geniuses of the sea
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'She turns her siphon into a gun': Watch coconut octopus firing stones at fish in world-1st footage
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Octopuses burn more calories changing color than you use on a 25-minute run
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Venomous snake strikes captured in extreme detail through high-speed videos for first time
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Scientists could soon create a 'universal antivenom.' But would it save lives?
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Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer
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What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?
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Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons
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Night lizards survived dinosaur-killing asteroid strike despite living right next to impact site
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Florida bobcat bites the head off of 13-foot Burmese python in the Everglades
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Reptiles evolved earlier than we thought, newly discovered claw-mark fossils suggest
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Two new crocodiles discovered in the Caribbean
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