Mar 24 Photos: Vets race to save the last two animals in the Mosul zoo By Larisa Epatko UPDATED: It took months of planning and unanticipated hangups at border crossings, but the Four Paws International team led by Amir Khalil succeeded in removing Lula the bear and Simba the lion from their confines at the damaged Mosul zoo… Continue reading
Mar 01 Ever wondered why your cat’s tongue feels like sandpaper? By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science By looking closely at cat tongues, research at MIT and Georgia Tech reveals clues to cats’ predatory prowess and finds inspiration for new technologies. Continue reading
Feb 09 Pill bugs emerged from the sea to conquer the Earth By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science Pill bugs are more closely related to shrimp and lobsters than crickets or butterflies -- plus other little known facts about roly polies. Continue reading
Dec 06 Big antlers shouldn’t exist. This math model explains why they do By Kristin Hugo Mathematicians tackle a question that once stumped Charles Darwin: Why do animals have antlers, manes and other ornaments?… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch sea urchins turn themselves inside out to be reborn By Joshua Cassidy and Carrie Boyle, KQED SCIENCE Every summer, just beyond the crashing surf, hundreds of millions of tiny sea urchin larvae prepare for one of the most dramatic transformations in the animal kingdom. Continue reading
Aug 22 Want to make waterproof bandages for internal injuries? Ask the caddisfly By Elliott Kennerson, KQED Science Current medical adhesives work well outside the body, but the challenge is making adhesives for the human body's watery internal environment. Enter the caddisfly. Continue reading
Aug 12 Meet the oldest known vertebrate in the world By Julia Griffin A Greenland shark just took home the gold medal for longest-living vertebrate. This slow-moving native of the Arctic and North Atlantic can live to be 272 years old, according to a new study in Science. Continue reading
May 12 Watch 2:54 Concerts for Cats? Dances for dogs? Yes, it’s come to this By PBS News Hour Humans tend to view animals as a source of entertainment, but anthropologist Laurel Braitman is more concerned with entertaining them. That’s why she started putting on music concerts for everything from wolves to miniature donkeys. The only rules: no people,… Continue watching
Apr 26 House votes to designate bison as America’s national mammal By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Make room, bald eagle. The House has voted to designate the bison the national mammal of the United States. Continue reading
Apr 05 Gorilla population decimated by decades of war in Democratic Republic of Congo By Dominique Bonessi The world’s largest population of Grauer’s gorilla, also known as eastern lowland gorillas, have plummeted in the midst of a nearly two-decade civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continue reading