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In 1995 New Zealand's kākāpō recovery programme began with 51 birds, 20 of them females; on 1 September 2026 DOC added 90 chicks from one season, lifting the official count to 325
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (141+ words) In 1995, the entire known kākāpō population fit into a single ledger line: 51 birds, 31 males and 20 females, spread across offshore islands where...
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (705+ words) The reduction appears to be unique in the millipede order Polydesmida, and in both known adult females the flattened leg bases sit over the vulva like a lid. More than forty adult males came out of the same litter sample, and…...
Germany set up 75 insect traps across the country, sequenced roughly four billion fragments of DNA from what they caught, and identified 10,803 species, while statistical modeling suggests the samples already captured evidence of roughly 32,000, most still unidentified for lack of a reference DNA barcod
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (26+ words) Germany's insect census reveals a hidden world: nearly 32,000 species may exist in the country, but science has barely begun to catalog them....
A fossil pincer more than 159 millimetres long has been identified as a scorpion's, after a century in which the animal was most often filed among the crustaceans, and the scorpion reading was still being rejected in 2024
6+ day, 33+ min ago (690+ words) Announcements from Manchester and the Natural History Museum call Praearcturus gigas the largest scorpion ever to exist, about a metre long. The revision they are announcing states no total body length for it, and no specimen preserves a sting. By…...
A Texas teenager named Aamir Tinwala has built and installed more than 750 nesting boxes across eight Texas counties, giving 16 or more native bird species places to raise young.
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (196+ words) One teenager's mission to rewild Texas, one handmade box at a time....
Florida is fighting its Burmese python invasion by putting GPS collars on opossums — when a python swallows one, the tracker keeps transmitting from inside the snake and leads researchers straight to it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (19+ words) A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida Everglades....
Deep in the Amazon, researchers found birds and monkeys passing predator warnings from one species to another — a single alarm can ripple through the canopy as other animals hear it, react and pass the danger on
1+ week, 3+ day ago (198+ words) Across the canopy, a single alarm call becomes an emergency broadcast system as creatures who never saw the danger relay warnings to neighbors they'll never meet....
Why does a funnel-web spider new to science turn up at just three sites in northern Idaho, about 500 kilometres east of the western Cascades and coast ranges where its genus was known to live?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (408+ words) Four collecting dates at three sites near Kooskia and in the Nez Perce National Forest produced a mygalomorph spider from a genus whose only previous revision was published in 1979, and whose two other species live a long way west. The…...
For 23 freezing days in Patagonia, a dog named Talero refused to leave his deceased owner’s side — driving away foxes and scavenger birds, hunting small animals to survive, and finally alerting the searchers who found them
1+ week, 4+ day ago (312+ words) A dog's fierce vigil over his dead master in the Patagonian wilderness became the only reason anyone ever found what was left to find....
The mimic octopus off Indonesia can transform itself into a flatfish, lionfish or banded sea snake — and researchers have even watched it switch into the form of a predator of the fish attacking it, suggesting the disguise can change with the threat
2+ week, 1+ day ago (24+ words) A small octopus on Indonesia's open seafloor has cracked an unexpected survival code: impersonate whatever predator is currently trying to eat you....