Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.

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A Rare Visitor to Long Island Is Driving Birders Cuckoo

A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

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Life Lessons from (Very Old) Bowhead Whales

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging humans become more resilient?

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Japan Plans to Send Troops to Help Stop Bear Attacks

With the number of people killed by bears reaching a record nationwide, the defense ministry is preparing to send the military to one badly hit area to set traps.

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Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in Santa Cruz. Again.

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine mammals and surfers.

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How to Deal With 30 to 50 Feral Hogs

Once a meme, free-ranging swine have become a real problem — one that has given rise to a wide array of potential solutions.

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She Studied How Foresting Affects Pollinators

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.”

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Bear Fatally Mauls Camper in the Ozarks in Arkansas

The authorities, joined by local hunters and their dogs, are searching for the bear after a 60-year-old man was found dead.

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Jane Goodall, Revered Chimpanzee Expert and Conservationist, Dies at 91

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”

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The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds.

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