3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (524+ words) "If there are maggots, that can indicate a more serious issue." According to the Reddit post, the animal showed no obvious distress: "The groundhog seems active and healthy, but didn't seem bothered by the swarm of flies on her." By…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (580+ words) A large spider named after a vampire film is being spotted more frequently along Germany's Baltic coast. As the Mediterranean Nosferatu spider spreads further across the country, it has drawn increased attention for its tendency to bite humans when threatened....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (325+ words) Some sea turtles rescued in Massachusetts remain traceable long after they are returned to the ocean, with public updates showing where certain animals travel in the Atlantic for months and sometimes for more than a year. According to Cape Cod…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (561+ words) "Straight A's in survival rate, tag retention, and ability to molt as usual." A wildlife experiment is putting miniature "backpacks" on juvenile crayfish. At White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery, biologists are using the tiny markers to learn how the…...

5+ day, 43+ min ago   (446+ words) A fly-control campaign in Texas is drawing attention for both its enormous scale and one especially unusual detail: Texas Parks and Wildlife says that more than 700 million sterile flies have already been released to help stop a flesh-eating parasite. Even…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (570+ words) "They can pass right through birds that eat them and then come out unscathed." A tiny invasive snail with the ability to clone itself has been identified at Carter Lake in northern Colorado, posing a new threat to local waterways…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (349+ words) Adults can unknowingly pass along bits of plastic through regurgitation. Plastic pollution is doing more than piling up in remote ocean waters. New research suggests it may be changing the bodies of southern giant petrel chicks before they are fully…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (625+ words) "We didn't ask to have the moa back. Whose decision was that?" Colossal Biosciences said its push to revive the extinct moa could advance bird conservation. But scientists in New Zealand believe the company may be promising more than genetics…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (746+ words) "Even though early colonists collected biological material from their former colonies, we didn't expect to see such high numbers in recent decades." A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer…...