Animals

New York's Guggenheim Museum announced Monday that it was removing three works from its upcoming exhibit of contemporary art from China. Animal rights activists said the works depicted cruelty to animals.

Citing Threats, Guggenheim Pulls Three Works Involving Animals From Exhibition

4:47pm September 26, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

An online petition demanding the museum remove the works garnered more than 600,000 signatures since it was posted five days ago, contending that three of them depict animal cruelty.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro found Kiko in a shelter after Hurricane Irma in Miami. "He licked my nose and it was pure love," she says.

National

Lost In The Storm, He Found A Place In My Family

8:02am September 24, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro adopted a puppy that had been abandoned during Hurricane Irma. She says rescue dogs play an important part in recovering from trauma. Meet the newest member of her family.

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It Got A Little Batty At A Salt Lake City High School When Winged Visitors Arrived

4:45pm September 22, 2017

A Salt Lake City high school had some uninvited visitors this week: hundreds of bats. But this wasn't the first time. They arrive every year because the school was built on a bat migratory path.

A duck-billed dinosaur skeleton, which the researchers think ate crustaceans, on display in 2009 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Shellfish Surprise: Common 'Herbivore' Dinosaur Found To Snack On Crustaceans

9:10am September 21, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

"I immediately said, 'Oh, no, no, it can't be crustaceans.' That was my knee jerk reaction," a paleontologist said. The prehistoric snacking was likely intentional and linked to mating behaviors.

Portugal Has a Pigeon Population Problem

6:48am September 21, 2017

Officials there reportedly are trying to be as nice as they can about reducing their numbers. They've built a hotel for birds. The plan: lure the pigeons there to nest, and then steal their eggs.

Sophia Spencer and Morgan Jackson co-wrote a scientific paper on Twitter, entomology and women in science, after a tweet about Sophia's love for bugs went viral.

Once Teased For Her Love Of Bugs, 8-Year-Old Co-Authors Scientific Paper

11:29pm September 19, 2017

Sophia Spencer was extremely fond of bugs, especially grasshoppers. Her peers didn't always appreciate her interest. Entomologists on Twitter, on the other hand, were huge fans of her passion.

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A map in Where the Animals Go shows how baboons move near the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, as tracked by anthropologist Margaret Crofoot and her colleagues in 2012.

The Science And Art Of Mapping Animal Movements

2:08pm September 19, 2017

by Barbara J. King

Technology allows mapping of wildlife movements with new precision — and a fresh approach to conservation — as evidenced by Where the Animals Go, released Tuesday in the U.S., says Barbara J. King.

Can A Cat Be Both A Liquid And A Solid?

6:28am September 18, 2017

That is one of the questions studied by scientists who received Ig Nobel Prizes at Harvard University, at the ceremony put on by the otherwise-august institution for the past 27 years.

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Two snow leopard cubs play in their enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday during their public debut.

Good News For Snow Leopards, Bad News For Ash Trees

6:59pm September 14, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Snow leopards are no longer on the verge of extinction, a new assessment found. However, the situation is looking dire for five species of ash trees, now listed as "critically endangered."

Ken Catania of Vanderbilt University lets a small eel zap his arm as he holds a device he designed to measure the strength of the electric current.

Science

It's Like An 'Electric-Fence Sensation,' Says Scientist Who Let An Eel Shock His Arm

5:47pm September 14, 2017

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

A neurobiologist noticed something strange whenever he tried to fish out electric eels in his lab using a net with a metal rim and handle. So he decided to roll up his sleeves and investigate.

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