September 26, 2026
The Crow Who Bent Wire Into a Hook Without Being Taught
Picture two crows and a puzzle. At the bottom of a clear vertical tube sits
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Meet Snowball, the Cockatoo Who Taught Himself to Dance
In August 2007, a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Snowball arrived at a bird rescue in Duncan,
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Why Monkeys Throw a Perfectly Good Cucumber in Your Face
On video, it looks almost human: a capuchin monkey takes a perfectly edible slice of
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Meet Imo, the Monkey Who Taught Her Troop to Wash Food
In September 1953, a Japanese schoolteacher named Satsue Mito watched a scrawny, sand-caked sweet potato
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Why Some Vampire Bats Cough Up Dinner for a Hungry Neighbor
Picture the inside of a hollow tree in Costa Rica, dark and warm and smelling
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Why Baby Goats Really Do Pick Up Accents
A goat kid is born bleating like its mother. Give it five weeks in a
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The Wild Bird Said to Sing a Farmer’s Flute Tune—Then Scientists Checked
There’s a video that’s been passed around the internet for years: a plain brown bird
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Honeybees Really Do Vote on Their New Home
Once a year, a colony of honeybees does something no royal court would ever allow:
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Why Axolotls Can Regrow Almost Anything (Except Home)
In Aztec legend, the god Xolotl was so afraid of being sacrificed to keep the
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The Bird That Remembers 10,000 Hiding Spots
In late summer, a gray-and-black bird with a dagger of a beak starts flying laps
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The Elephant Who Wouldn’t Let Her Friend Die Alone
On October 10, 2003, in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve, an old matriarch named Eleanor swayed,
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Meet the Only Animal to Survive the Vacuum of Space
In September 2007, a Swedish biologist named Ingemar Jönsson sent about 3,000 microscopic animals into
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Meet the Shark That’s Older Than the United States
Somewhere in the black, near-freezing water off Greenland, there is a shark alive today that
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The Shrimp Whose Punch Out-Accelerates a Bullet
In 1998, keepers at the Sea Life Centre in Norfolk, England, kept finding cracks in
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The Jellyfish That Ages Backwards — and Never Technically Dies
In the summer of 1988, a German biology student named Christian Sommer was scooping up
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Why Octopuses Have Three Hearts and Bright Blue Blood
Watch an octopus jet away from a predator and you’re watching something that sounds like
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Why Sea Otters Hold Hands While They Sleep
Sea otters hold hands so they don't drift apart while sleeping. They also wrap their pups in kelp like a seatbelt. All documented.
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Why Is Wombat Poop Cube-Shaped? Science Finally Figured It Out
The wombat is the only animal that poops cubes. Scientists finally found the intestinal trick — and won a prize for it.
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