Children's books feature tidy nuclear families—but the animal kingdom tells a different story

Animals in children's stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family units. Examples include ...

AI videos of animals could be dangerous. Here’s how to spot them.

Moral of the story, be mindful of the content you’re engaging with. While some AI videos might be easier to suspect, you ...

Adorable AI wildlife videos are everywhere — and they’re putting humans and animals in danger: study

It’s the AI-nimal Kingdom. The internet is becoming inundated with AI-generated wildlife clips, from bizarre interspecies ...
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Behind the scenes at the Greensboro Science Center: How toys became tools for wildlife enrichment

GREENSBORO, N.C. — At first glance, a plastic container, a cardboard box, or a handful of mealworms might have looked like child’s play. But for the animals at the Greensboro Science Center, these ...
The Washington Post

What’s an axolotl? Why obscure animals rule kids’ world.

Juliana Mancinelli is 4, and she has gotten rather good at educating adults about a critically endangered Mexican salamander. The New Jersey preschooler’s favorite animal is the axolotl, an amphibian ...
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Science Brought Dire Wolves Back From Extinction, Watch the Adorable Creatures Meet for the First Time

I quite literally cannot believe, for multiple reasons, what I am about to say is true. Yet, somehow, it is: we got real dire wolves before we got The Winds of Winter. Scientists have produced three ...
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Over 40 Percent Of Kids In A US Study Thought Bacon Was A Plant

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...