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San Francisco Zoo Hatches Three Magellanic Penguin Chicks

The chicks are being hand‑reared after staff incubated eggs with AZA approval to restart breeding following recent penguin deaths.

Study Finds People Tend to Turn Counterclockwise When They Walk

Scientists Trigger NREM‑Like On/Off Activity in Awake Mice to Restore Memory and Lower Local Sleep Need

New Four‑Winged Microraptorine Jian changmaensis Described From China’s Changma Basin

Bumblebees Solve Novel Object-Manipulation Task Without Training

Study Identifies Iron-Rich Liver Cells as Candidate Magnetic Sensors in Pigeons

Urbanization Leads City Bowerbirds to Use Human-Made Items in Courtship

Black Bear Tranquilized in Mt. Pleasant Falls From Tree and Is Relocated

Study Finds Masturbation Is Common and Natural Across Many Bird Species

Brainwide Pre-Decision State Predicts Social Approach in Zebrafish

Bald Eagles Confirmed Nesting in Los Angeles County

Timmy the Whale Brought Ashore for Autopsy After Controversial Private Rescue

Study Says Pigeon Livers Hold Iron Cells That May Act as Magnetic Compasses

Pigeons Use Iron‑Rich Liver Cells as Magnetic Sensors, Study Reports

Zoo Performs Rare Emergency C-Section to Deliver Baby Gorilla

New Cretaceous Bird Plumadraco Has Tail Feathers Twice Its Body Length

Pygmy Hippo Calf Takes First Outdoor Bath at Zoo Berlin

New Fossils and Geochemistry Redraw Origins of Complex Life

Beluga Whale Shows Signs of Self-Recognition in Reanalyzed Mirror Tests

Millennium-Old Dingo Burial on Baaka River Shows Care and Ritual by Barkindji Ancestors