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Jackie and Shadow’s chicks’ genders revealed: It’s a boy…and a girl!0

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11 captivating images from the Exposure One Photography Awards 0

Kelsey Pfendler is trying to become the youngest woman to row solo from California to Hawaii 0

Bobcat that survived being hit by a car gets a custom-built kennel 0
- Animals, Biology, Engineering, Environment, SCIENCE, Technology, Wildlife
- May 25, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In March, we reported on a wild bobcat that had been hit and dragged by a car, who also got her head stuck in the car’s grill. As if things could get any worse, the wild feline arrived at
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Newly discovered spider has happy face on its back 0
- Animals, Biology, Conservation, Environment, Evolution, SCIENCE, Spiders, Wildlife
- May 19, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The happy-face spider (Theridion grallator) is famous for the particularly cheery looking patterns on top of its abdomen. Ecologists in Hawaii first described the tiny, vibrantly green arachnids in 1900, and have long assumed them to be unique to
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Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 0
- Animals, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Ocean, SCIENCE, Wildlife
- May 13, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s undeniable. The bright reddish-orange hues, the fuzziness, the snout…there simply is no other way to put it. This unique fish looks exactly like Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street. “Once you see it, the resemblance to Snuffleupagus is impossible
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