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Sabrina Imbler

A paleoart illustration of the pterosaur Balaenognathus maeuseri, showing a creature with a long bill that tapers to a flat end, lots of tiny verticle teeth, and a red beady eye staring out from an orange and blue face.

Creaturefector

Now That’s What I Call Teeth!

A Sloane's viperfish, a deep-sea fish with iridescent scales and very big teeth

This Hole Is Full Of Viperfishes

More Scientific Images Should Go This Hard

An aggressive insect approaches a hapless honeybee on a purple flower.

It’s A Bee Brawl In The Flower Patch!

A mated pair of glass frogs sleeping on the underside of a leaf, their bodies translucent and dark hearts beating softly.

How The Glass Frog Hides Its Blood

An illustration of the absolute unit of a wombat, the extinct Ramsayia, standing next to a puny modern wombat.

This Ancient Wombat Was An Absolute Unit

BRISTOL, ENGLAND - AUGUST 02: A King Cobra is displayed to the public at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm on August 2, 2016 in Bristol, England. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm has teamed up with the Reptile Zone in Bristol to bring a fortnight of educational shows which allows members of the public to see some of the world's most deadliest reptiles close up. The annual event showcases some of the world's most notorious snakes behind a specially constructed presentation room. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Happy Snake Clitoris Day To All Who Celebrate

Wisdom the Laysan Albatross resting on her nest

Birdfector

Wisdom The Laysan Albatross Is The Most Beautiful 71-Year-Old In The World

A photo of the grass mouse Akodon albiventer

These Two Grass Mice Species Look Almost Identical Except For One Small Thing (Their Wieners)

Clonal raider ants sipping ant milk from pupae.

Ants Of All Ages Enjoy Ant Milk

Science

An Oral History Of The Time Six Doctors Swallowed Lego Heads To See How Long They’d Take To Poo

A lady lifts a comically small Shetland pony out of a van in Germany.

Animals

Pumuckel The 20-Inch Pony Has Other Mini-Horses Quaking In Their Hooves

Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?

A Modest Proposal: Eat Some Of Your Children, For The Antioxidants

Goldfish Gold Fish, Carassius Auratus.Carassius Auratus , Goldfish , Cyprinid , Bony Fish , Fish (Photo by BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Let Us Celebrate Bubulle, The Goldfish That Flunked

An illustration and CT scan of an aye-aye putting its extremely long flexible finger inside its nose.

How Does The Aye-Aye’s Finger Go So Deep Inside Their Nose?

A photo of the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid at night

Every Creature I Met At The Bass Pro Shops Pyramid

A photo of an enormous dead sunfish, which is a strange-looking pale fish with triangle fins, hooked to a crane with a person examining the fish

I Wish We Didn’t Know About the Heaviest Bony Fish Ever Found

on a high-altitude cliff, a mountain goat intimidates a trio of bighorn sheep

Mountain Goats Keep Winning

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar waving a bland hello except his bottom half is long trailing jellyfish tentacles

The Machines

We Can Do So Much Better Than Legs

Maitreyi Anantharaman

Barry Petchesky

Laura Wagner

We Saw A Bear

How Many Ants Is The Right Number Of Ants For There To Be?

A close up of the illustration of a fish barfing out a frog

Welcome To Jurassic Puke

A tiny orange frog sitting by a pool of water inside the leaf of a bromeliad plant.

Nowhere Is Safe From Our Garbage

A tiny pink snake attempting to swallow a giant centipede.