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Rare blue-and-green hybrid jay spotted in Texas is offspring of birds whose lineages split 7 million years ago
By Skyler Ware published
The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.

Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina
By Chris Simms published
Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison
By Lydia Smith published
These deep-sea worms, which are 1% arsenic, are only found at the hottest hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific.

Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer
By K.R. Callaway published
Difficulty digesting large meals may limit where these temperature-sensitive snakes can call home — and that might be a good thing in places where they're invasive.

Jaguar in Brazil smashes record for the species' longest documented swim
By Richard Pallardy published
A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it could have gotten there was a very long swim.

'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
By Chris Simms published
The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
By Skyler Ware published
The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed.

Grumpy-looking Pallas's cat photographed by camera trap in stunning photo from eastern Himalayas
By Lydia Smith published
The Pallas’s cat is just one of several wildcats spotted in Arunachal Pradesh, which also supports snow leopards, common leopards, clouded leopards, leopard cats and marbled cats.

'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
By Sophie Berdugo published
A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.
Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used remotely operated vehicles to find three new species of snailfish off the California coast.
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