Why everyone is talking about the Olympic Mascot

For all their charm and Gen‑Z spirit, the Olympic mascots echo a reminder beneath the celebration: the mountains hosting the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
Discover Wildlife

A gobsmacking 106 metre square spider's web, a bee bigger than your thumb, a speedy shark that can swim at 70km/h – meet 20 amazing animal record breakers

Meet the impressive record-breaking species of the animal kingdom, from the the fastest shark, to the hairiest mammal or the loudest animal.

5 rare deep-sea creatures you won't believe exist

Dive into the depths of the ocean to discover seven rare deep-sea creatures so strange and elusive, you won't believe they exist.
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The one dead-simple way to tell a cottonmouth from a harmless water snake

Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, ...
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They're older than dinosaurs, look a bit like aliens and eat almost anything they can find – and scientists just found them in Colombian waters

These researchers captured photos that wouldn’t look out of place in an art gallery and used them to confirm new species of comb jellies never recorded in Colombia before.