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I Am the Common Carp, Destroyer of Aquatic Ecosystems
The Merganser: Shark-Slaying Dandy
Everyone Will Want Flies in Their Soup: 5 Questions on Entomophagy with Arnold van Huis, Tropical Entomologist
Census of Marine Life
African gray parrot
Elephant Poaching
The End of Elephants?
THE RAVAGES OF FISHING BYCATCH
A WAR WON BY A BEAR
Of Evolutionary Amputation and Projectile Tongues: 5 Questions with Reptile Researcher Alex Pyron
The Gollum Diet: Cave Creatures from Around the World
Prime Suspects: Profiling Winged Invaders
Little Leviathan: A Small Shark Shows Its Teeth
Filleted Fossil: The Unlikely Discovery of the Coelacanth
Specious Spidey Sense: The “Arachno-Apocalypse” in India
A Watering Hole in the Windy City
The [Snowy] Owl By Day
Of Winged Things the Swiftest: The Migratory Odyssey of North American Raptors
Wolf from Oz: The Last Thylacine?
Chi-town’s Animal Magnetism: 5 Questions for Biologist Seth Magle
Dark Water: 5 Questions with Marine Cave Biologist Tom Iliffe
Butterflies on Corpses: 5 Questions with Conservation Biologist Phil Torres
The Census of Marine Life’s Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) Project: 5 Questions for Principal Investigator Randy Kochevar
Bedknobs and Bite Marks (The Rise of the Bed Bug): Five Questions with Entomologist Louis Sorkin
Queen Mab’s Stable: 7 of the Smallest Animals
9 Fish Named After Other Animals
8 Nonhuman Casualties of Hurricanes
Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms
Off the Hook: 10 Sharks Protected From Fishing in American Waters
Everything’s Illuminated: 6 Bioluminescent Organisms
Big Bugs and Colossal Crabs: 7 Invertebrates of Unusual Size
KRISTIN BAUER VAN STRATEN ON ELEPHANT POACHING
AN ENCHANTED ECOSYSTEM IN THE WINDY CITY
AN INTERVIEW WITH SHARK ECOLOGIST PAUL CLERKIN
GROUNDED: THE PINIONING OF CAPTIVE BIRDS
A WATERING HOLE IN THE WINDY CITY
THE SCANDALOUS SOCIAL LIVES OF BONOBOS
THE HERITAGE BREED QUANDARY
A Tad Spiny, But With Violet Fins to Die For: 5 Questions with Shark Ecologist Paul Clerkin
Wings of Ire (The Jamaican Flightless Ibis): 5 Questions for Yale Paleontologist Nick Longrich
The Modern Mariner: 5 Questions with Philippe Cousteau
Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
Funky Feathers: 10 Bizarre Birds
Abundant Animals: The Most Numerous Organisms in the World
6 Domestic Animals and Their Wild Ancestors
Sand, Surf, and Research: 5 Questions for Mote Marine Laboratory CEO and President Kumar Mahadevan
Southern Africa's Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
7 More Domestic Animals and Their Wild Ancestors
Hell in a Handbag
Why Do Sharks Attack?
Would You Eat Bugs?
What’s the Difference Between a Bee and a Wasp?
YAY! MY PET HAS A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER
THE HERITAGE BREED QUANDARY
CRASS COSMOPOLITAN: THE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON
PSITTACINE SAFARI
THE CAPTIVATING WORLD OF THE OCTOPUS
HELL IN A HANDBAG
LIFE AND DEATH IN A CUP
The Rats of Logan Square
Otters in Chicago? The story behind their Illinois comeback
Fish cognition: Why Dory isn’t as dumb as she seems
Plight of the sea monk: Monkfish and sustainable fishing
An appreciation of the praying mantis
Venom proteins cause allergic response to fire ant stings
Nurse sharks migrate between uteri… and eat their siblings
A tale of tails: Vestigial organs as evolutionary footprints
Shed a light: The evolution of fireless fireflies
Because the night: A parrot after dark
How house mice made themselves a part of human life
Feeding birds in winter: helpful or harmful?
Reynard of the steppes: The Tibetan sand fox
Different factors drive varying states of hibernation in animals
Red invasion: The rise of the Red Cherry Shrimp
Leucistic animals are not to be confused with albino animals
A crawling shape intrudes: The earthworm invasion
In what distant deeps: The terrifying tigerfish
Carnivorous caterpillars are hungry… for flesh
All the better to eat you with, my dear: The evolution of jaws
Where did all of these stink bugs come from?
Octopus on the half shell: The amazing argonaut
Preserved eggs reveal how dinosaurs raised their kids
Inky black all over: The evolutionary implications of melanism
Pretty poison and Müllerian mimicry: Teaming up to avoid predation
Under the skin: The fascinating lives of botflies
Canine crooners: The New Guinea highland wild dog
Snakes in the snow: The resilience of the rubber boa
How gynandromorphs manage to be half male and half female
How male seahorses give birth
Come together: Raptors aren’t always loners
The net of life: Hybridization and evolution
Spanish Ghost: Resurrection of the Iberian Lynx
Birds follow their noses with a highly developed sense of smell
Raptors find a home in the city
Dirty birdies: The case of the stinking bird
When spiders unite: African social spiders live in large groups of up to 1,000
Quantum leap: The invasion of the African clawed frog
Fantastic phasmids: The mysterious lives of stick insects
The enormous hissing cockroaches of Madagascar are gentle giants
Botanical albinos: The science behind plants without chlorophyll
Sustainable freshwater fishkeeping: Insights from aquarist Rachel O’Leary
The strange problem of the self-cloning crayfish
Take my kid: Brood parasitism in the animal kingdom
The Case of SUE, the Woke Dinosaur
Cat fights: The debate about outdoor felines
The truth about relict megafauna
Save the native bees: Reframing the bee problem
Smarter Together: Mixed species foraging flocks
Cut and paste: Ants are more impressive than they may appear
Few grow good: The strange story of the domestication of the fox
The salamanders that found a form of eternal youth are now in danger
7 ways to make your garden or yard more winter wildlife friendly
Suckerfish really suck when they invade nonnative ecosystems
A trickster comes to town: The urban coyote
Do peregrine falcons imprint on cities?
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