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A collage of a woolly mammoth inside a petri dish with a pipet above it
'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.
Greate white shark photo taken from a shark diving cage.
How did sharks become Earth's 'ultimate survivors'? Paleontologist John Long finds answers in new book 'The Secret History of Sharks' "The Secret History of Sharks" author John Long met with Live Science to discuss his new book, recent revelations about megalodons, and how he got over his fear of great whites.
an eastern lowland gorilla mother with a baby nursing in the jungle
'The simplicity of life just hits you': Watch rare footage of critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla feeding her baby in the wild Filmmakers captured a mother eastern lowland gorilla nursing her infant for the PBS show "Silverback."

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two marmots sit on a rock surrounded by grass and wildflowers

Wild animals that experience trauma are half as likely to survive, study finds

By Xochitl Ortiz Ross published

New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.

Animals
a burmese python with its jaw stretched extremely wide as it swallows a large deer

'Truly primal': Watch Burmese python swallow deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit

By Hannah Osborne published

Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida.

Snakes
black and white photo showing two great auks in museum display cabinets with eggs placed on a black cushion

'It was clearly a human assault on the species': The fate of the great auk

By Alexander McNamara published

Two preserved great auk specimens displayed at a museum in 1971. The last pair of great auks were killed in 1844.

Extinct Species
A photo of the fossilized eggs next to a ruler

80 million-year-old dinosaur 'mini eggs' unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative

By Harry Baker published

Half a dozen dinosaur eggs, each around the size of a grape, were recently saved from a construction site in China. Researchers say the tiny fossilized shells are exceptionally well preserved.

Dinosaurs
An illustration of a shallow pool with a flat, purple, pancake-shaped animal. A protruding backward question-mark shape can be seen on its back.

Half-a-billion-year-old 'marine Roomba' is earliest known asymmetrical animal

By Sierra Bouchér published

A backward question mark shape on the creature's back reveals early animal evolutionary history.

Extinct Species
A close-up of a horned lizard

Short-horned lizard: The inflatable 'horny toad' that squirts toxic blood from its eyes

By Lydia Smith published

This little lizard can fire blood up to 5 feet from its face, has spiky horns and inflates itself to choke predators.

Lizards
Bioluminescence by the Scripps pier.

Watch bioluminescent algal blooms trigger electric-blue waves off San Diego coast in stunning new footage

By Elise Poore published

Mesmerizing footage from a new PBS Nature show captures the bioluminescent beauty of brilliant blue waves crashing along San Diego's coast.

Animals
Profile picture of a 108-year-old Tasmanian devil skill with remnants of skin still attached. The teeth are visible in the jaws.

Most complete Tasmanian tiger genome yet pieced together from 110-year-old pickled head

By Sascha Pare published

Researchers working with Colossal Biosciences have assembled a near-complete Tasmanian tiger genome and developed artificial reproductive technologies that could help de-extinct the species.

Extinct Species
A closeup picture of a cavity beneath the seafloor with several tubeworms lying beside it. Mussels are also visible on the seabed.

Ghostly white giant worms appear to be reproducing under the seafloor where tectonic plates meet

By Sascha Pare published

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands.

Animals
a silhouette of a gibon with its arm in the air as it looks up

Female gibbons 'vogue' and dance like robots — and make sure they have an audience

By Olivia Ferrari published

Female gibbons appear to do robot dances for attention, scientists discover.

Animals
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