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Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer
Difficulty digesting large meals may limit where these temperature-sensitive snakes can call home — and that might be a good thing in places where they're invasive.
Jaguar in Brazil smashes record for the species' longest documented swim
A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it could have gotten there was a very long swim.
'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.
Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed.
Grumpy-looking Pallas's cat photographed by camera trap in stunning photo from eastern Himalayas
The Pallas’s cat is just one of several wildcats spotted in Arunachal Pradesh, which also supports snow leopards, common leopards, clouded leopards, leopard cats and marbled cats.
'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.
Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used remotely operated vehicles to find three new species of snailfish off the California coast.
Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent Jurassic storm 150 million years ago
Researchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making.
Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries
Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.
How the mystery origins of hairy little Yakutian horses were uncovered in Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld'
In 2018, a perfectly-preserved foal was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia. It's discovery, along with another horse from the Batagay crater, paved the way for scientists to solve the mystery of how Yakutian horses came to roam the landscape.
