Australia’s superb lyrebird has been keeping secrets. Sure, it’s famous for mimicking chainsaws, camera shutters, and the occasional crying baby. But behind those dazzling tail feathers, it's running a slow-motion horror show—one where its prey is carefully...

An army of oversized, orange-toothed swamp rats is devouring America’s wetlands, and the government has a solution: Kill them. Cook them. Eat them. These insatiable invaders—nutria—are South American rodents built like beavers with the appetites of locusts. They chew...

The behemoth known as A23a, a block of ice twice the size of Greater London, has finally stopped drifting and wedged itself neatly onto the continental shelf of South Georgia. It’s been roaming the Southern Ocean for years, but now it’s stuck—like an ancient, frozen...

Forty years ago, humanity looked up and realized we were cooking our own atmosphere. Scientists had found a gaping wound in the ozone layer over Antarctica—thanks to our love affair with chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), those once-ubiquitous chemicals lurking in...

Honeybees are the unsung laborers of the food chain, quietly pollinating a third of everything humans eat and drink. Morning coffee? Thank a bee. Almond milk? Also bees. But colonies are collapsing, thanks to a perfect storm of extreme weather, pesticides, and...

For years, scientists assumed iron oxides were just lifeless rocks, hoarding phosphorus like a dragon guarding treasure. Turns out, they’ve been pulling off a biochemical heist right under our noses—converting organic phosphorus into the kind plants actually use. And...