Rats filmed snatching bats from air(science.org)

136 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 78 comments

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations(smithsonianmag.com)

67 points by speckx 1 month ago | 28 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 68 comments

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species(smithsonianmag.com)

454 points by sampo 1 year ago | 146 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on Iberian harvester ant queens that lay eggs hatching into both their own species and builder harvester ants, seemingly by cloning males.

Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)

223 points by foxtacles 3 years ago | 135 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments