Animals

Thousands of starlings in flight over Ireland.

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WATCH: Starlings Perform Acrobatic Life-Or-Death Dance With A Hungry Falcon

3:21pm January 22, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

In a video posted by Birdwatch Ireland, a murmuration of starlings dips and dodges a predator with grace. The scene was just one of many such spectacles filling the skies of southern Ireland lately.

Bronx Zoo Has A Way To Break Your Old Valentine's Day Routine

6:22am January 22, 2018

If you want to show someone how much you care, how about naming a cockroach in their honor. For $15, you can give a name to one of the zoo's giant Madagascar hissing roaches. Now that says love.

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Thai police process suspected wildlife trafficker Boonchai Bach, who was arrested after an X-ray inspection last month of a bag on a flight from Ethiopia revealed the rhino horns.

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Animal Trafficking 'Kingpin' Arrested in Thailand

2:07pm January 20, 2018

by Amy Held

Boonchai Bach is accused of heading a network that dealt in large quantities of poached elephant ivory, rhinoceros horn and other endangered species.

Scooters head across a bridge in Thailand.

A Drone's Eye View Of The World: Hippos, Palm Trees, Motor Scooters

7:00am January 20, 2018

by Diane Cole

Here are a few of the winners from the 4th International Drone Photography Contest.

A hive of honeybees on display at the beekeeping convention in Vermont in 2014.

Iowa Boys Charged In Connection With Deaths Of Half A Million Honeybees

11:35am January 19, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The unidentified boys, ages 12 and 13, are accused of ransacking a Sioux City honey farm, knocking over hives and exposing the bees to frigid winter temperatures.

Aaron Hernandez (81), of the New England Patriots, lost his helmet during this play against the New York Jets in 2011. Hernandez killed himself in 2017, and researchers found that he had had one of the most severe cases of CTE ever seen in someone his age

Repeated Head Hits, Not Just Concussions, May Lead To A Type Of Chronic Brain Damage

6:57pm January 18, 2018

by Tom Goldman

Scientists believe they have solid evidence that repeated direct hits to the head can cause the degenerative brain disease seen in some athletes, even if there are no signs of concussion.

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What can you learn from knowing whether your cat is right- or left-pawed?

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Cat Lovers, Is Your Cat Right- Or Left-Pawed?

11:32am January 18, 2018

by Barbara J. King

Do you know which paw your cat uses first when coming down the stairs? Anthropologist and cat lover Barbara J. King discusses with researchers why a new finding of paw preference matters for our pets.

Saigas lie dead in Torgai Betpak Dala in Kazakhstan during the mass mortality event in May 2015.

Strange Weather Triggered Bacteria That Killed 200,000 Endangered Antelope

2:51pm January 17, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Over a three-week span in 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope suddenly died in Kazakhstan. The animals would be grazing normally, then dead in three hours. A new study points to heat and humidity.

Northern Arizona University Researcher Studies Dog Communication

6:30am January 16, 2018

The researcher wants to better understand what dogs say with tail wagging or growling. His efforts come after 30 years studying the language of prairie dogs.

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Darwin sits in front of Shrewsbury Library in England, which was formerly a school he attended.

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Altering A Species: Darwin's Shopping List

5:10pm January 15, 2018

by Jimena Canales

Few scientific discoveries have caused as much excitement as that of editing our genes; yet we owe some of the most stunning wonders around us to old-fashioned breeding practices, says Jimena Canales.