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A 14-Year-Old Camera Just Won a Major Bird Photography Award — Here’s the Story Behind the Shot
Some award-winning photography stories are about cutting-edge gear. This one is about a photographer, a fjord in Patagonia, and a camera body that was already well into its second decade of use. A Fleeting, Calm Encounter Chilean wildlife photographer Rodrigo González Pairoa won the Birds Without Borders category (Chile and Colombia) in the 2026 Audubon…
Meet Leopardus Tilcayo: The First New Cat Species Discovered In Over 100 Years
In 2017, a Bolivian wildlife sanctuary called biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz about an unusual animal that had just been surrendered to them — described only as “a weird cat.” Nearly a decade later, that same animal has turned out to be something genuinely historic: the first new species of cat discovered anywhere in the world in…
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New Federal Directive Narrows When Killing Endangered Wildlife Is Considered Illegal
A new directive from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service marks one of the most significant shifts in how the Endangered Species Act has been enforced since the…
This Baby’s First Move Every Morning Isn’t Reaching for a Toy — It’s Reaching for His Dogs
Most babies wake up hungry, cranky, or both. The one in this clip wakes up looking for company — and finds it on either side of him. A…
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A Fisherman Pulled Up a Bizarre “Alien” Creature From the Ocean Depths — Here’s What It Actually Is
Roman Fedortsov has built a following of more than 600,000 people by doing one simple thing: showing the internet what actually comes…
Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean
Beneath a remote basin spanning Kenya and Ethiopia, geologists have found something that rewrites two stories at once: how fast a continent…
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