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An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Dodo bird is one of the most famous birds in the world, despite the fact that nobody alive has actually seen one. They have been extinct since the 17th century, thanks almost entirely to humans.

By springtime, the young female owl Elena observed will return to the Arctic tundra she calls home. But Elena will never ...

This top-down effect is technically known as a trophic cascade – a “domino effect throughout the ecological community,” as Pacific Wild puts it. As wolves hunt animals in the rung of the food chain ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

Even if you've never watched the ‘80s sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”, there's one line you're probably familiar with. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly,” says Dayton-native Gordon Jump, ...