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An illustration featuring various birds found in New York City. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lori Van Buren / Bruce Bennett / Jon G. Fuller / Sebastian Willnow / Universal Images Group)

Birding is punk

Lucy Levinson
Every Little Thing (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

"Every Little Thing" shows massive grace

Gary M. Kramer
Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Mongoose warfare: Rikki Tikki's revenge

Rae Hodge
Newborn great white shark. (Carlos Gauna/The Malibu Artist)

Newborn shark pup filmed for first time

Rae Hodge
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Plainfin Midshipman (Getty Images/Joseph Dreimiller)

Inside the brains of "singing" fish

Rae Hodge
The new species of fanged frog, Limnonectes phyllofolia. (Sean Reilly)

"Fanged" frogs found in Indonesia

Matthew Rozsa
Protecting and preserving the American chestnut tree (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Saving a tree — and saving ourselves

Rae Hodge
Serotine bat (Alona Shulenko, CC BY-SA)

These bat penises are too long for sex

Matthew Rozsa
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Western lowland gorilla (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Gorillas are under extreme threat

Assaf Levy
Vladimir Putin | Dolphins (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

All about Putin's covert combat dolphins

Rae Hodge
During quiet sleep, octopus laqueus appears white and motionless. This quiet sleep is punctuated by bursts of sleep that show wake-like activity (active sleep) roughly every hour. (Keishu Asada / Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Do octopuses dream of electric eels?

Rae Hodge
United States Supreme Court (Getty Images/joe daniel price)

SCOTUS ruling to affect Clean Water Act

Max Graham - Grist
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Staghorn Jelly (Stu's Images)

10 very bizarre North American mushrooms

Troy Farah
An adult elephant sprays water from its trunk after taking a drink in a watering hole. (National Geographic for Disney/Robbie Labanowski)

For elephants, "family is everything"

Matthew Rozsa
Red Winged Blackbird in Flight (Getty Images/Gail Shotlander)

Climate extremes threaten birds

John R. Platt - The Revelator
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Learning to love burned trees

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Autumn Forest Road (Getty Images/rusm)

First Nations get conservation

Chris Arsenault - Grist
Red fox cub with parent (Vulpes vulpes) (Getty Images/James Warwick)

How systemic racism hurts urban wildlife

Troy Farah
Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) and Tyroe Muhafidin (Theo) in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" (Courtesy of Prime Video)

"Rings of Power" fighting climate change

Alison Stine
Fractals of Romanesco broccoli and fern leaves (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why are there patterns in nature?

Maxim Lavrentovich - The Conversation
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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Nature's secret drug stockpile

Ashu Tripathi - The Conversation
Baratunde Thurston in "America Outdoors" (Courtesy of Twin Cities PBS)

Making America love the outdoors again

Melanie McFarland
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Climate change intensifying water cycle

Donna Lu - Grist
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

The 16 most dangerous US national parks

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
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