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Biosphere 2 was built to test whether eight people could survive completely sealed off from the rest of Earth for two years — but inside its glass walls, cockroaches and stowaway ants boomed while most of the birds and pollinators died.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (412+ words) When scientists sealed eight people inside a artificial Earth, they discovered that the creatures they didn't want thrived while the ones they needed to survive mysteriously vanished....
Beginning in 1962, NASA acquired roughly 140,000 acres around Merritt Island for Kennedy Space Center—but used only a fraction for launch operations. Since 1963, the Fish and Wildlife Service has managed most of the remaining NASA land as a national wildlife refuge, where bald eagles nest in pine trees alongside launch pads, crawlerways and sprawling solar farms.
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (530+ words) Kennedy’s undeveloped lands and lagoon waters support a refuge established in 1963. Eagle surveys, nest rescues and protection from launch-pad lighting show what managing the shared landscape involves....
Elephants are among the few animals shown to recognise themselves in a mirror, a test most species fail entirely — and when researchers painted a white X on one elephant’s forehead, she reached for herself, not the reflection
3+ week, 15+ min ago (424+ words) The moment an elephant recognizes herself in the mirror, the question shifts from whether she has self-awareness to what that consciousness means for how we treat her. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Happy was 34 years old the first time anyone…...
A cave in New Zealand preserved a lost world from a million years ago — ancient parrots, giant flightless rails and a bird community reshaped by supereruptions and Ice Age climate swings long before humans ever reached the islands
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (165+ words) New Zealand's fossil record rewrites itself: a cave revealed birds that vanished millions of years before humans set foot on the islands, reshaped by forces far more violent than any spear....
In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent.
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (30+ words) A cartographer's paradox: the one tree so alone it warranted a spot on continental maps, until a drunk driver erased three centuries of solitude in a single night....
In 1995 New Zealand's kākāpō recovery programme began with 51 birds, 20 of them females; on 1 September 2026 DOC added 90 chicks from one season, lifting the official count to 325
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (141+ words) In 1995, the entire known kākāpō population fit into a single ledger line: 51 birds, 31 males and 20 females, spread across offshore islands where...
Only two northern white rhinos are left, a mother and daughter who cannot carry a calf, and after 39 laboratory embryos and six transfers into surrogate mothers not one of the attempts has held
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (622+ words) Thirty-nine pure northern white rhino embryos have been produced, and as of April 2026 six of them had gone into southern white rhino surrogates in Kenya without producing a lasting pregnancy. Every recent egg collection has come from one animal, a…...
Since 2021, Guam power crews have collected electrocuted brown tree snakes for USGS biologists after outages, the invader's long body bridging two live wires at once and turning a climbing animal into the missing piece of an electrical circuit
2+ week, 1+ day ago (434+ words) An invasive snake species is literally short-circuiting Guam's entire electrical system, and scientists are turning dead animals into a detailed intelligence operation....
Florida is fighting its Burmese python invasion by putting GPS collars on opossums — when a python swallows one, the tracker keeps transmitting from inside the snake and leads researchers straight to it
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (19+ words) A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida Everglades....
In 1989, media billionaire Ted Turner bought the 113,613-acre Flying D ranch in Montana, removed its cattle and hundreds of miles of internal barbed-wire fencing, and shifted the land to bison — 37 years later, the property supports about 4,500 of them.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (760+ words) A massive Montana ranch shows how rewilding on billionaire-scale might reshape western land—and what gets left behind in the trade-offs. Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Let’s consider the same stretch of southwestern Montana ground, three decades apart. In the…...