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The Last Days of the Bahama Nuthatch

What's it like to "very probably" witness extinction?
Shoshi Parks March 15, 2023
science

Podcast: The Various Ends of the World

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.
The Podcast Team April 18, 2022
insects

The World's Largest Bee and the Cautionary Tale of Its Rediscovery

Scientists were thrilled to find the Wallace's giant bee, missing for four decades. Things did not go as they'd hoped.
Oliver Milman April 11, 2022
dinosaurs

Did the Dinosaurs Die on a Pleasant North Dakota Spring Day?

Fish fossils may put "the single worst day for multicellular life on Earth" on the calendar.
Gemma Tarlach February 23, 2022
extinct animals

Inside the Years-Long, International Effort to Save One Tiny Mexican Fish

Scientists and schoolchildren worked together to bring the tequila fish back from extinction.
Sarah Durn January 13, 2022
science

These Truffle-Eating Marsupials in Australia Are 'Ecosystem Engineers'

There are far fewer northern bettongs than previously thought, but work is underway to save the species.
Lisa Cox November 29, 2021
islands

Tiny Computers Reveal How Tahiti's Tree Snails Evade a Fierce Predator

The bean-sized snail has persevered despite hundreds of related species going extinct in recent decades.
Hannah Thomasy July 14, 2021
beaches

How Cows Destroyed an Entire Marine Ecosystem in California

A researcher's quest to understand a mysterious mass extinction leads to cud-chewing culprits.
Jack Tamisiea June 21, 2021
dinosaurs

Behind a New Jersey Hardware Store, a Paleontological Bonanza

The third episode of TED’s Far Flung podcast was 66 million years in the making.
Anna Phelan June 30, 2020
dinosaurs

What a Buried Crater in Mexico Says About the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs

And why the scars left by meteoritic impacts tell us about life, the universe, and everything.
Luna Shyr June 8, 2020
botanical gardens

In Kaua‘i, Botanists Rediscover an Extinct Plant Once Mistaken for Another Extinct Plant

Just another day in Hawaiian conservation.
Sabrina Imbler February 28, 2020
fires

Australia’s Platypuses Are Invisible Victims of the Bushfires

After years of drought and habitat loss, “It’s one more nail in their coffin.”
Sabrina Imbler January 24, 2020
islands

In the Field With the Intrepid, Dedicated Snailers of Hawai‘i

Tiny gastropods, huge undertaking.
Sabrina Imbler November 22, 2019
botanical gardens

Could a Gene Bank Save Endangered Plants From Extinction?

A "plant studbook" might help botanic gardens bring rare breeds back from the brink.
Lorraine Boissoneault November 1, 2019