Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany, saying it should try looking after them instead of criticizing

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Botswana's elephant population is causing concern for the country's leaders.

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Underwater photos from the World Nature Photography Awards reveal stunning scenes beneath the world's oceans

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Young humpback whale in Tonga.
Location: Tonga.

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14 breathtaking wildlife photos from the World Nature Photography Awards

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Two gannets under the water. Shetland Islands.
Two gannets under the water in the Shetland Islands.

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10 hilarious unseen photos from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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Two bears appear to converse with each other
"Bear Jokes" by Sidra Monreal Burshteyn.

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See 15 animals in amazing X-ray vision

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OVert's CT scans reveal a myriad of information about the anatomy of thousands of specimens, offering insight into how these animals lived and reproduced.

Edward Stanley / Florida Museum of Natural History

A frog was found with mushroom sprouting from its side, leaving scientists baffled

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A Rao's Intermediate Golden-backed frog is shown with a mushroom sprouting out of its side on 19 June 2023

Maliye, C. C. ., & Y.T., L. (2024) Reptiles & Amphibians. https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v31i1.20966. CC BY-NC 4.0

25 award-winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest show the beauty and fragility of animals in the wild

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An Adélie penguin approaches an emperor penguin and its chick during feeding time in Antarctica's Atka Bay.
Location: Atka Bay, Antarctica.

Stefan Christmann/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Scientists think they've finally solved the millennia-old mystery of why bugs flock to your porch light

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A white tent is lit up at night in a rainforest as a person sits at a small table with lots of electronic equipment
Scientists did field experiments in Costa Rica to see how different insects respond to artificial lights at night.

Yash Sondhi

'Lost' golden mole rediscovered after 86 years

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The blind De Winton's golden mole, thought to be lost for nearly a century, was found in South Africa using eDNA, a technique that examines DNA left in the environment.

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, and it could reshape the history of T. rex's evolution

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Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species that was comparable in size to T. rex.

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