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Sabrina Imbler

Creaturefector

This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret

KENYA - 2018/08/19: A Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gracie The Giraffe Is Back Home. Now Rich Guys Can Buy Her.

a photo of a brown edible robot shaped like a rectangle with arms and two black eyespots

Science

Would You Eat This Guy? What If He Were God, Or A Baby?

Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist looks at a turtle at a coast in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre 12 August 2002

Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike

You Are The Dancing Fly, Young And Spry, Just A Little Guy

A statue representing an iceman named Oetzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier, is displayed at the Archaeological Museu of Bolzano on February 28, 2011 during an official presentation of the reconstruction.

They’re Making Ötzi The Iceman Show Feet

A view inside the Texas Division of Emergency Management State Operations Center as they respond to the New World Screwworm threat on June 5, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

Welcome, Screwworms! Make Yourself At Home

a still from an AI video showing four killer whales moving under the ice

AI Animal Videos Are Ruining One Of The Internet’s Last Good Things

Interviews

Cat Fitzpatrick On Writing Transsexuals Into Iambic Pentameter

Green Pakistani Parrot on White Background

Birdfector

Let Birds Masturbate

The dead whale lies bloated off the Danish island of Anholt. It is the humpback whale known as Timmy, which first beached off Timmendorfer Strand at the end of March and was transported to the North Sea around a month later

The Long, Sad, And Totally Fucked-Up Tale Of Timmy The Whale’s Trip To Germany

And They Were Tomb Mates!

a wall-e ass looking robot called the looming eyes buoy