Nicole Montanez called four hotels on Tuesday before finding a room where she could safely evacuate with her son and her 4-year-old Havanese, Diego. The dog coughed throughout the 75-minute car ride from Pacific Palisades to Marina del Rey, where the family was taking shelter from the wildfires searing through Los Angeles. “I’ve got to […]
There’s been a lot going on in animal news this year. Perhaps the best animal story of 2024 came right at the end of the year, when orcas (Orcinus orca) started wearing salmon hats again after a 37-year hiatus from the fabulous fad. And while scientists don’t really know why orcas are balancing dead fish […]
Twenty big cats – including a Bengal tiger and four cougars – have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington. “This tragedy has deeply affected our team, and we are all grieving the loss of these incredible animals,” the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of […]
Whether a large and fuzzy social media sensation or deep-sea slug slunking around the ocean’s Midnight Zone, there are still so many exciting animals on Earth just waiting for their close-up. In that spirit, here are the 11 of the most exciting animal stories that Popular Science covered this year. First photo of a newborn […]
Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, Flaco the escaped eagle-owl, Charlotte the maybe-pregnant stingray — they distracted us from the messy human world but were also clear reflections of it.
In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has puzzled humans as long as we have existed: “What are animals saying to each other?” The recent Coller-Dolittle Prizeoffering cash prizes up to half-a-million dollars for scientists who “crack the code” is […]
Elephants are seen at the safari park in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Fareed Khan Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month, a veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization said Wednesday. Dr. Amir Khalil with […]
Though it started out pretty chill, over the years, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp steadily became bloated with monetization. There were all kinds of things to spend real money on, including loot boxes for unlocking rare items. When I logged in to the game last week after months away, my screen was dominated by notifications vying […]
Preparation of branched microvasculature. a. Scheme and fluorescent images of extraction and perfusion process. Scale bar 200 μm; b. 3D confocal epifluorescence images of HUVECs cells lining the microchannel walls. Scale bar 200 μm; c. Fluorescent image of HUVECs in 70 μm microvasculature. Inserted picture is a zoom-in image of microvasculature. Scale bar 200 μm; d. Confocal epifluorescence images […]
Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated over 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically within other primitive cellular organisms. Replicating the development of this photosynthetic capability in other cells today—by placing chloroplasts inside animal cells—was previously thought impossible: animal cells recognize chloroplasts […]
