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At 50 Below, This Horse Goes Out for Breakfast
Yakutian horses live outdoors all winter in one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. Their ancestors arrived there not very long ago.
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Wild stories.
13 stories from the Wild desk, newest first.
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A Forest of 47,000 Trees That Is Really One Tree
Pando in Utah is a single clone, joined at the roots. How old it is nobody agrees.
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A Polar Bear Is Black Underneath, and Its Fur Isn't White Either
The skin is dark. The hairs are see-through. Once, in a zoo, they turned green.
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Crows Remember Your Face, and They Tell Their Friends
Researchers in Seattle wore a rubber mask to trap crows. Years later, the crows still scolded it.
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In a Place Where Oranges Don't Grow, the Whale Was the Orange
Muktuk is the skin of a whale with a thin layer of blubber. It also carries vitamin C.
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How Does a Wombat Make a Cube?
It is the only animal known to do it. Scientists finally worked out how in 2018.
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The Frog That Spends Winter as an Ice Cube
A wood frog's heart stops and most of its body freezes, and then in spring it hops away.
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A Shrimp Smaller Than Your Finger Snaps Out a Bubble Louder Than a Gun
The pistol shrimp's claw never touches its prey. The sound does the work.
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The Plant That Can Count to Two
A Venus flytrap ignores the first touch. It waits, and it keeps score.
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Dragon's Blood: Socotra and the Tree That Bleeds Red
At dawn on a limestone plateau 240 km off the Horn of Africa, dragon blood trees stand like upturned umbrellas, bleeding a red resin traded since…
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The Serengeti Great Migration: Earth’s Greatest Wildlife Journey
Each year, over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles follow ancient routes across Tanzania’s Serengeti and into Kenya’s Maasai Mara — a…
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Why Sámi Reindeer Herding Matters: Culture, Climate and Life in the Arctic
For centuries, Sámi communities have followed reindeer across Europe's Arctic north. Today, climate change and competing demands for land are…
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Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Humanity's Backup Plan
Hidden deep within an Arctic mountain, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves millions of seeds from around the world, safeguarding the future of…
