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Sabrina Imbler

An illustration of two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung

Creaturefector

Dung Beetle Study Suggests That Sisyphus Would Have Appreciated A Buddy

a stuffed specimen of a swamp antechinus, which is a small brown marsupial, against a green background

The Sex Fest Keeps Getting Worse and Worse

hanging sculptures by Ruth Asawa in the tower of the de young museum

Arts And Culture

In The Shadows Of Ruth Asawa

Low angle view of moon against clear sky at night

Science

Is There A Better Way To Honor Your Dog Than Littering The Moon?

Wolf Spiders, Actually, Are All Around

a grid of ultrasound images of my (now former) breasts may they RIP!

Life Lessons

Even Good Health Insurance Is Bad; Or, How I Got Top Surgery With A Family History Of Breast Cancer

A blue-green iridescent wasp with a pointy pointy rear

The Year In Parasitic Wasps

A flattened scroll of lead with words etched on it: “sathanas taleke belzebuk hinrik berith”

This Month In Curse Tablets

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, believed to be the oldest reptile living on earth with and alleged age of 185 years, opens his mouth in a kind of yawn as he stands on grass

This Is So Stupid

This Week In Turtles

A female Tasmanian Devil yawns in an enclosure at the Night Safari Singapore nocturnal zoo in Singapore o

What If You Kept Your Baby Teeth Your Entire Life?

This photo illustration created on December 11, 2023 shows emojis on a smartphone screen in Washington, DC. Too many cats, not enough crustaceans: The current emoji catalog doesn't accurately represent the breadth of biodiversity seen in nature -- and that hurts conservation efforts, according to scientists. An analysis published on December 11, 2023 in the journal iScience found that while animals are well represented by the current emoji catalog, plants, fungi, and microorganisms get short shrift. (Photo by)

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at the Extinction: Not the End of the World exhibition at The Natural History Museum on February 5, 2013 in London, England. More than 99 percent of species that once roamed the planet are now extinct. Organisers of the exhibition hope to show that a diverse range of plants and animals survived. 80 Museum specimens are on display from February 8-8, September 2013.

What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?

The Popular Science Logo on a black background

Journalismism

Popular Science Ends And Science Journalism Keeps Shrinking

A brown male golden rocket frog carrying an enormous tadpole on his back

As A Father Of Tadpoles

LAKE FOREST, CA - JULY 16: Dr. Scott Weldy of the Orange County Bird of Prey Center holds a Cooper"u2019s hawk just prior to releasing it near Lake Forest on Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Birdfector

North American Birds Will No Longer Be Named After People

A close-up of three leg-like appendages of a green caterpillar with orange and black spots

The Great Defector Leg Quiz

People carry injured and dead Palestinians from the rubbles of buildings as civil defense teams and civilians conduct search and rescue operations after Israeli attacks on Al-Shati refugee camp of Gaza City, Gaza on October 27, 2023 as Israeli attacks continue on the 21st day on Gaza

Who Is Allowed To Do Science?

An orange caterpillar with five distinctive eyeposts and a some tinier legs by the head

When The Legs Are A Lie

A photo of a white tray full of 13 little syringes, which is sitting on top of an unseen white tray of even more syringes

Into The Woods

I Resent My Accursed Allergy Shots, Unless They Work, In Which Case I Love Them!

A Timema douglasi stick insect on a Douglas fir

Asexual Insect Accused Of Having Sex!

A 2020 photo of giraffes being fed at The National Zoological Gardens of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.

Let The Woman Whose Box Of Giraffe Feces Was Seized By Customs Make Her Necklace, Damn It!

Three photos depicting fossil human footprints at White Sands National Park, one showing a person photographing them, one shot of several footprints, one shot of a single footprint

Kick Back And Read About This Ancient Feet Controversy

A still of a swimming colony of worms that resembles a jellyfish moving around a glass beaker

Mysterious Jellyfish Actually 1,020 Worms Who Want To Be Poop

A photo of a beautiful tortoise beetle adult, with a gold and brown shell ringed with blue.

These Baby Beetle Backpacks Are Made Of Poop

An Animorphs-like grid showing how bite marks in the deep-sea overlay perfectly with a rattail mouth