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San Diego Zoo Announces Masai Giraffe Calf, Now Viewable in Maternity Area

The yet-to-be-named newborn supports the zoo’s Species Survival Plan work for an endangered subspecies.

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Pioneering Elephant Conservationist, Dies at 83

Study Points to GRIN2A Loss-of-Function as First Single-Gene Cause of Early-Onset Mental Illness

Gut Microbe Molecule TMA Blocks IRAK4 to Curb Diet-Driven Inflammation in Preclinical Study

Two Mature Thresher Sharks Die After Cape Cod Bay Strandings

Severe Drought Tied to Disappearance of Flores ‘Hobbits,’ High-Precision Cave Record Finds

Fossil Brain Scans Point to Rapid Origin of Pterosaur Flight

New Genomic Study Identifies Chromosome 10 Variants Driving High-Risk AMD Subtype

California Issues Mushroom Foraging Warning After Deadly Amatoxin Outbreak

Meta-Analysis Finds Laughing Gas Delivers Fast, Short-Lived Relief in Depression

Maryland Zoo Hatches Eight Critically Endangered African Penguin Chicks

Chernobyl’s Viral ‘Blue Dogs’ Likely Dyed by Tipped Porta-Potty, Not Radiation

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Deep-Sea Mining Trial Shows 37% Drop in Seafloor Animals, 32% Fewer Species, Study Finds

Newly Described Cretaceous Bird Packed With 800 Throat Stones Points to Choking Death

Sleep Becomes Sport’s Fourth Pillar as Experts Push Quality Rest

Bennu Samples Yield Ribose, Glucose and a Novel Polymer in Peer-Reviewed Analyses

Single Psilocybin Dose Rewires Brain-Wide Circuits in Mice, Cell Study Finds

Lassen 'Fire Amoeba' Replicates at 63°C, Setting a New Eukaryotic Heat Limit

Newly Described Cretaceous Bird Likely Choked on 800 Stones, Study Finds

Sick Ant Pupae Signal Their Own Destruction, Study Shows