In 2012, researchers at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Peru discovered that, within a few years, a colony of Humboldt penguins had turned a man-made breakwater at a ...

Quick Take Simple Eyes for a Dark World Sensing the Ground and Air Silk as a Sensory Network Putting the Clues Together Having eight eyes sounds like it should give tarantulas incredible vision, but ...

For decades, researchers have known that male humpback whales use song as an essential form of communication, especially during breeding season. What researchers didn’t understand is what the whales ...

Sea slugs, also known as nudibranchs, are some of the most underestimated animals in the sea. They look harmless, but they can ingest the venom of their predators with little effort. For the blue ...

A fun day of swimming suddenly turned tragic recently when a woman was attacked by an alligator in Florida. This marks the third attack in the state to date this year. On June 28, 2026, Brittany Clark ...

Several months ago, A-Z Animals published a story about the Florida Python Challenge. This state agency-sponsored event offered cash prizes to participants willing to enter the swamps of the ...

For commercial tuna fishing fleets, using drifting fishing aggregating devices (dFADs) is part of the daily routine. The problem is that these drifting devices cannot recognize or respect the ...

Quick Take The Real Identity Came to Light Telling Behavior of the Spider-Tailed Ho... When a snake was collected from the Zagros Mountains of western Iran in 1968, it fooled zoologists from the Field ...

What happens to marine life when their captive home closes? For the beluga whales that lived at Canada’s Marineland theme park near Niagara Falls, it meant moving thousands of miles away. Their ...

Quick Take What Happened to Pancake? How Was Pancake Treated? What Happens to Pancake Now? Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Are Enda... A crowd gathered at Coney Island in New York on July 23, 2026, for an ...

Quick Take The Persistent Myth and Its Real Consequ... Evidence Overturns Old Assumptions Public Perception and Snake Survival Beyond Myths: Facing Nature With Knowled... For decades, worried parents ...

A newborn hippopotamus found by fishermen along a riverbank in northwestern Colombia has put the spotlight back on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The tiny hippo, found dehydrated and malnourished, is one ...