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Margay cat, Leopardus wiedii, licking lips. Endangered and native to Central and South America
10 crafty ways animals hunt their prey Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.
Great white surfacing on the water
Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.
a woolly rhino horn placed on top of a skeleton in a museum
Siberian gold miners accidentally find ancient woolly rhino mummy with horn and soft tissues still intact Mummified woolly rhino discovered by miners in Russia's Sakha Republic to be fully excavated in the coming months, as researchers begin studying its intact horn.

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two small dinosaurs in a cavern walking towards the outside

Pair of dog-size dinosaurs likely crushed to death in underground burrow collapse

By Richard Pallardy published

New species of dinosaur discovered in Utah may have lived underground, with near-complete fossils indicating they died in burrows.

Dinosaurs
Black and white fluffy ant species.

Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies

By Lydia Smith published

Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies.

Insects
Two elephants stand close together and curl their trunks around each other

Do animals have friends?

By Mindy Weisberger published

Friendship is a key component of human social relationships. Is this also true for animals?

Animals
A cottonmouth coiled up by the water raises its head

Cottonmouth snakes: Facts about water moccasins

By Patrick Pester, Jessie Szalay last updated

Cottonmouth snakes, also known as water moccasins, are venomous snakes found throughout the southeastern U.S. that can be identified by the white color in their mouths.

Snakes
Dozens of long-finned pilot whales lying dead on a beach on Sanday, in Scotland.

Entire pod of 89 pilot whales dies on Scottish beach in freak mass stranding

By Sascha Pare published

Dozens of long-finned pilot whales have beached and died on Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, in the biggest mass stranding the country has seen since 1995.

Dolphins
A piece of woolly mammoth skin covered in fur is laid out next to a measuring tape.

Ancient chromosomes from woolly mammoth discovered in 52,000-year-old freeze-dried skin

By Sascha Pare published

In a breakthrough that could boost de-extinction efforts, scientists have determined the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth's genome from a 52,000-year-old piece of freeze-dried skin.

Mammoths
Chameleon catching a meal with its tongue.

20 amazing animal tongues

By Laura Geggel published

Here's the science behind 20 animal tongues.

Animals
A Scottish Fold cat rests its head on its owner's shoulders and looks at the camera

Cats love to meow at humans. Now we know why.

By Grace Carroll published

Meows are more than a cute sound — they're also a window into the relationship between humans and their feline friends.

Animals
A still of a dragon from the TV show "House of the Dragon"

Could a fire-breathing animal ever exist?

By Mark Lorch published

To create a fire-breathing animal, you would need to combine features found in a cow, a beetle and an eel.

Animals
close up of a mako shark tearing at a piece of bait with water splashing

Searching for 'Makozilla' — the supersized mako sharks in the North Pacific

By Hannah Osborne published

A decade after a huge mako shark dubbed "The Beast" was caught off the California coast, experts search for its enormous relatives.

Sharks
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