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Wild animals that experience trauma are half as likely to survive, study finds
New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.
Rat poison is ripping through the food chain, threatening predators at the very top
Rat poison detected in around a third of wild mammal carnivores — including those that don't normally eat rodents, such as mountain lions and gray wolves.
How many animal species have humans driven to extinction?
Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused.
12 of the biggest birds on Earth
Reference From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.
Bear vs tiger: Watch 2 of nature's heavyweights face off in the wild in India
Visitors at a tiger reserve in India recently filmed an encounter between a tigress and a bear, with the bear charging after the tigress but deciding at the last minute it was not worth the fight.
Watch hammerhead sharks swim in 'cyclones' around ancient volcano in rare footage
Filmmakers have captured hundreds of hammerhead sharks circling a volcanic island off Costa Rica for a new Netflix wildlife series.
The longest-living animals on Earth
The longest-living animals can survive for centuries and millennia, even pausing the aging process altogether. Here are the longest-living animals in the world.
Half-asleep bears are wandering around Siberia because it's too hot to hibernate
Bears that are struggling to hibernate due to abnormally warm weather in Russia's Amur region are wandering around in a daze, having suppressed their metabolism in preparation for winter.
800-pound alligator is the longest ever caught in Mississippi
The gigantic animal measured 14 feet and 3 inches long, beating the previous record for the longest alligator caught by permitted hunters by more than 2 inches.
Crocodile murder mystery deepens following discovery of 2nd corpse with 'fileted' head
An anonymous person allegedly told a wildlife tour operator who was very fond of the crocodile "Lizzie" that the killing was a way of proving that humans, not crocodiles, are the apex predator.
