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Close up of ear of corn in corn crop field

Corn gets gassy when it feels too crowded

a lake trout looking up from the water

Meet Mary Catherine, the Great Lakes’ oldest-known trout

By Laura Baisas

Interior of small airplane bathroom

Airplane toilet water may help combat the next pandemic

a rattlesnake with brown and white scales is coiled on the ground of a forest

Michigan’s only rattlesnake is inbreeding

By Laura Baisas

Close up of dental exam on woman's teeth

Want a better toothpaste? Just add wool

a bird with long wings and white and black plumage gliding over the oceanCREDIT: Yusuke Goto

These seabirds poop on the fly (literally)

By Lauren Leffer

two small brown rodents called prairie voles

Love hormone could be key to friendship

By Margherita Bassi

three ants working together

Ants are better at teamwork than humans

By Margherita Bassi

Asian small-clawed otter swimming in water

Splash the otter is training for underwater search-and-rescue

Six stone tool artifacts

Stone Age humans traveled for miles to find the perfect rocks

A nestling bald eagle in Arizona.

Bald eagles stun scientists with bizarre migration pattern

By Margherita Bassi

a river otter with brown fur sits in water with a waterfall behind it

Otter poop reveals they may be ecosystem engineers

By Laura Baisas

a a small bird with brown and white feather and a long skinny beak sits on a tree

Scientists find male bird that laid an egg

By Laura Baisas

a dolphin rides on the bow wave in front of a humpback whale

Dolphin follows a whale all the way to the seafloor

By Laura Baisas

a long, cylindrical blue-green mollusck sits on a rock under the ocean

Unsuspecting sea creature has Earth’s hardest teeth

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a groundhog on the grass

Three orphaned groundhogs released back into the wild

By Margherita Bassi

Norselaspis illustration

A googly-eyed fish could upend evolutionary history

two french bulldogs with black fur and white bellies

Your Frenchie’s squishy face might shape their personality

By Laura Baisas

a small, yellow snail with dark eyes

Apple snails can regrow their eyeballs

By Laura Baisas

Robot fiddler crab waving claw at actual male fiddler crab on beach

‘Wavy Dave’ is a beefy-armed robot crab on a mating mission