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In 2006, University of Washington biologist John Marzluff wore a caveman mask while trapping and banding seven Seattle crows; the birds taught others—including offspring born years later—to scold anyone wearing it, and the warning spread across campus for 17 years before a masked walk in September 2023 finally produced silence.
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1439+ words) silence. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit On four...
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once — 11 days continuously over the Pacific with no food or rest, despite never having made the journey before.
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (815+ words) kilometres. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit B6 was...
In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (388+ words) very nearly did. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit The...
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed from Angel Island, not nearby San Francisco as biologists expected
1+ week, 3+ day ago (713+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit Alcatraz was built on the assumption that its water would do the guarding. Cold, fast and mean enough that, per Associated Press reporting on the island’s history, 36 men attempted 14 escapes…...
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder — shown paintings they had never seen, they sorted Cezanne with the Monets and Braque with the Picassos.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (402+ words) The birds had grasped something deeper than memorization—a visual principle that let them recognize artistic style in works they'd never encountered. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit We are not psychologists…...
From 1999 to 2006 crews moved 44 golden eagles off the Channel Islands and cleared more than 5,000 feral pigs from Santa Cruz; that island's fox count rose from 55 to 3,086 by 2024
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (323+ words) from existence. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Between...
Scottish lighthouse keepers filled in bird-observation schedules in the early 20th century, and several hundred of the surviving records — including one completed at Pentland Skerries Lighthouse in 1911 — are now held by the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
1+ week, 3+ day ago (508+ words) By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit Why lighthouses, of all places? The answer is about timing and location, and it’s neat once you see it. Migrating birds often travel at night, following the coast....
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation
3+ week, 2+ day ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
1+ week, 2+ day ago (557+ words) Engineers in the Netherlands took fine mud choking a lifeless lake and used it to build five low islands and within a few years, rare birds started showing up. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit We are not ornithologists or ecologists,…...
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years — she resurfaced as a healthy adult, laid her own eggs, and now two of her offspring have been released into the same refuge
1+ week, 6+ day ago (517+ words) A conservation mystery solved itself when a vanished turtle returned after twelve years to reveal she'd thrived in the wild, bred successfully, and launched the next generation of her kind back into the refuge. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published…...