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News Articles: Animals

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  • Environment

Jekyll Island Authority launches interactive maps to track turtle activity in real time

More than 250 diamondback terrapins have been documented along the Jekyll Island Causeway so far this year, with about two-thirds rescued alive.

May 29, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne

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  • World

Greetings from the Galápagos Islands, where the blue-footed booby shows its colors

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Hummingbirds gather around a hummingbird feeder filled with sugar water, in a backyard in the San Fernando Valley section of the city of Los Angeles, July 17, 2014.

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  • Science

Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists say

A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
This illustration depicts the early jawless vertebrate <em>Astraspis</em> being attacked by the sea-scorpion <em>Megalograptus</em> in dark, shallow waters. Both animals likely had tooth-like scales on their bodies that would have allowed them to sense things in the waters around them.

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  • Science

That zing in your teeth from a cold treat? Blame this ancient armored fish

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Teri Orr, a physiological ecologist at New Mexico State University, inspects the base of a guanacaste tree in Belize where she intends to trap bats later in the night. Scientists say they've developed an alternate method of tracking biodiversity that relies on the DNA that animals release into the environment, known as eDNA.

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  • Science

Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity using DNA in the air

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all kinds of species around the world.

May 22, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
Chicks mill around a stall at the First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday in Camden, Del. They are among 12,000 chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.

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  • National

12,000 chicks found abandoned in postal truck raise concerns about animal shipping

A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Lydia Calitri
In this still from a wildlife camera, a one-to-two-day-old howler monkey infant clings to the body of a young capuchin monkey. Scientists say the capuchins are likely kidnapping the howler babies for their own amusement.

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  • Science

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings

Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

May 19, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A team of researchers recorded thousands of vocalizations made by wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Ivory Coast.<br>

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  • Science

Chimps' rhythmic drumming and complex calls hint at origins of human language

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.

May 12, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
Professional photographer Emily Scher told NPR she came across tens of thousands of glittering <em>Velella velella</em> on a stretch of sand between Zuma and Broad beaches in Malibu, Calif.

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  • Animals

Glittering blue creatures are washing up on California beaches. Here's why

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline. Beachcombers say they look like "blue diamonds strewn across the beach."

May 08, 2025
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  • Vanessa Romo
An unidentified cnidarian that resembles a Venus flytrap from the family Hormathiidae, sits at 1874 meters water depth. A new study finds that the vast majority of the deep sea floor remains undocumented.

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  • Science

Humans still haven't seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists want to change how they explore these regions.

May 08, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Jekyll Island Authority wildlife conservation technicians Bailey Yarborough and Will Hicks pose after finding Georgia's first sea turtle nest of the 2025 nesting season on May 1 along Glory Beach.

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  • Environment

'Our summer is going to be really busy': Georgia sea turtle nesting projected to see surge this year

Loggerhead sea turtles have steadily rebounded in recent years, with 4% annual population growth since the 1990s.

May 05, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
An axolotl, also known as a Mexican salamander, is pictured at a shop in Paris.

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  • Science

Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find

The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

May 03, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
<em>Why would adult human men want to threaten me with physical violence?</em>

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  • Animals

Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says

This week, the internet was up in arms over who would win in battle: 100 men or a single silverback gorilla? One expert says the real fight is much bigger.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo,
  • Mia Venkat,
  • and 2 more

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  • News

From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

April 27, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden, during preparations for the livestream 'The Great Moose Migration' to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)

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  • Animals

A moose trek across Sweden pulls in millions of viewers looking for 'Slow TV'

Last year, more than 9 million people watched across the world, and executive producer Johan Erhag said he expects viewership will be even higher this year.

April 25, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
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