More Than 70 Gray Whales Dead in 6 Months, and Scientists Don't Understand Why By Kimberly Hickok It's been almost 20 years since scientists have seen this many gray whales in such a short period of time.
Why These Human-Sized Beavers Suddenly Died Out 10,000 Years Ago By Tessa Plint The giant rodents' taste for aquatic plants may have done them in.
50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows School of Baby Fish in Their Final Moments By Brandon Specktor Baby fish swam in schools 50 million years ago, according to this remarkable fossil held in a Japanese museum.
Escaped 'Raccoon Dogs' Harass English Village. What Are These Things? By Rafi Letzter A pair of escaped raccoon dogs are stalking the English village of Clarborough, according to the Nottinghamshire police. Here's what they really are.
Albino Panda Spotted in the Wild for the First Time By Laura Geggel Pandas are known for their furry black-and-white markings, so wildlife experts were stunned to see an all-white panda with red eyes tramping through a bamboo forest in China last month.
No, That Baby Dinosaur Didn't Crawl. But It Did Walk on 4 Legs As an Infant. By Laura Geggel A Jurassic-age dinosaur walked on all four legs as a baby, but graduated to a two-legged stance as an adult.
Botswana Just Lifted Its Ban on Elephant Hunting. Conservationists Are Appalled. By Yasemin Saplakoglu The country has long been a safe haven for the animals, but it's unclear what will happen now.
Did a Great White Shark Really Enter Long Island Sound? By Jeanna Bryner Marine scientists aren't sure how or why the nearly 10-foot-long shark wandered into the Long Island Sound.
Enormous Python Swallows, Vomits Up Even Bigger Python By Rafi Letzter An Australian python vomited up a larger Australian python that it had eaten earlier.
Rare Dodo Skeleton May Fetch Over $700K at Auction By Mindy Weisberger The bones of this extinct, flightless bird were assembled early in the 19th century.
Look Out, Songbirds — Baby Sharks Want to Eat You By Mindy Weisberger This is the first evidence of sharks eating terrestrial birds.
Octopuses May Go Blind As Climate Change Sucks Oxygen Out of the Ocean By Brandon Specktor When the oceans lose oxygen, squids lose their vision.
New Study Finds Bedbugs Have Pestered the World for 115 Million Years By Brandon Specktor Looks like bedbugs annoyed the dinosaurs, too.
This Crafty Spider Doesn't Have Venom...But It Does Have a 'Slingshot' By Laura Geggel Does the idea of a spider using its web to catapult itself at high speeds give you the willies? Then be forewarned: the triangle weaver spider (Hyptiotes cavatus) does just that.
An Enormous Great White Shark Is Cruising Toward the Outer Banks. But There's Nothing to Fear. By Stephanie Pappas A great white shark named Luna has been detected near the South Carolina coast. She weighs more than 2,000 pounds.
This Bird Evolved into Existence Twice — Thousands of Years Apart By Yasemin Saplakoglu A type of flightless bird evolved on an atoll or ring-shaped coral reef in the Seychelles — twice.
Car-Size 'Sea Monster' Terrorized Triassic Oceans By Laura Geggel A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.
Survival of the Grossest: 8 Disgusting Animal Behaviors By Mindy Weisberger Poop-eating! Butt-gouging! Belly bombs! Snot spew!
