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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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A herd of African elephants walks through the grass in front of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya.

6 animals where females reign supreme

By Sascha Pare published

From honeybees to elephants, here are six animals with female bosses.

Animals
vampire squid V. pseudoinfernalis on a white background

Never-before-seen vampire squid species discovered in twilight zone of South China Sea

By Richard Pallardy published

Scientists discover what appears to be the second known living species of vampire squid swimming in deep water off Hainan island, China.

Mollusks
newly discovered fossils with flattened, circular head

280 million-year-old swamp monster with 'big, flat toilet seat-shaped head' discovered in Namibia

By Jacklin Kwan published

Giant salamander-like predator that lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs had huge fangs and sucked up prey with its weird head.

Extinct Species
an ant amutating another ant's leg on a white background

Ants perform life saving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do so

By Jacklin Kwan published

Florida ants perform amputations and clean wounds to prevent the spread of infection, scientists discover.

Insects
A guanaco stands behind red flowered bushes an in front of a snowy mountain range and lake

Which continent has the most animal species?

By Katherine Irving published

The diversity of even the largest animals depends on the smallest factors.

Animals
Two polar bears, one with its mouth wide open and another with its paw on its head

Zany polar bears and a '3-headed' giraffe star in Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards

By Elise Poore published

Nikon release its best entries so far for the Comedy Wildlife Awards 2024.

Animals
tasselled wobbegong resting on coral.

Tasselled wobbegong: The master of disguise that can eat a shark almost as big as itself

By Lydia Smith published

Tasselled wobbegong sharks are so well camouflaged they can vanish on the seafloor, waiting for unsuspecting prey to pass before lunging forward to suck their victims into their giant mouths.

Sharks
Monkey looks at himself in a handheld mirror

Which animals can recognize themselves in the mirror?

By Richard Pallardy published

Research on whether animals can recognize themselves in the mirror began in 1970 1 and just a handful of species have since passed the test ever since.

Animals
Irritator challengeri lets out a loud roar while walking along a Cretaceous shoreline.

20 of the best named animal species on Earth, from Boops boop to Agra vation

By Elise Poore published

From cave-dwelling creatures to weird-looking animals this countdown covers animals with the wittiest names.

Animals
on the left, a baby snake in a person's palm, on the right, a box with straw with lots of baby snakes in it

'Ronaldo had been looking slightly fatter than usual': Snake thought to be male has 14 babies in rare 'virgin birth'

By Hannah Osborne published

A captive Brazilian rainbow boa initially declared male by a vet gives birth to 14 snakelets in a rare case of parthenogenesis at a U.K. college.

Snakes
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