New species are being discovered at a faster rate than ever—more than 16,000 every year—and the trend shows no sign of ...
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What’s in and out for 2026

And there you have it. Another year, done and dusted, and I would say for many of us: Thank God. It’s too much pressure, existing in a year that is, numerically, the quarter marker of a century, and ...
A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.
One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.
Have you ever called an alligator a crocodile or thought a llama was just a fancy alpaca? It happens to the best of us!
For decades, the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) played a surprising and essential role in human medicine. Native to the ...
In the late 1980s, something began to go wrong in places that were supposed to be safe. Protected cloud forests, buffered ...
The story of R.E. Burke being detained in the USA topped the Top 100 Most-Read Stories On Bleeding Cool In 2025 list ...
Artist Kristin Scholz's Chicago friend wanted something colorful on her alley garage. The result is the Philadephia artist's ...
For a man who claimed he couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, Stanisław Lem’s writings contain remarkable musical visions – and ...
McGinley's 1956 Christmas story gets a refresh with gouache illustrations by Manders that suggest cartoons of the era. When Santa decides he's due for his "first vacation in a thousand years," a boy ...