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Sabrina Imbler

Redback spider - Latrodectus hasselti on a branch

Reds Week

Some Spiders Savor Sacrificial Somersault Sex

a fluffy white and brown cat in a gray camouflage recovery suit

Animals

Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine

Barry Petchesky

Squirrel Leads Detroit Grounds Crew On Merry Chase

an orange and black burying beetle on a blade of grass

Creaturefector

Homosexually Humping Corpse-Eating Beetles Here For A Good Time, Not A Long Time

Colobus congensis, known locally as “likweli,” has a dramatic black face with pinkish-orange lips.

New Monkey! New Monkey! There’s A New Monkey!

Patty, an Asian elephant kept in captivity at the Bronx Zoo stands in her enclosure alone after being separated from the zoo's other remaining elephant

The Other Elephant

a photo of a swimming crab trapped inside a plastic bottle

Plato’s Allegory Of The Crab

Science

<p>A. Frog is a freelance writer living in Japan.</p>


A. Frog

a frog taking a weevil into its mouth that looks like shit

The Passion According To A. Frog

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.

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 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

Green Pakistani Parrot on White Background

Let Birds Masturbate

Kathryn Xu

Clementine the tuxedo cat looking like a snake.

Life's Rich Pageant

How I Became An Itinerant Cat Tutor

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