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Bullfighter killed in Lisbon after 1,540 lb bull slams him into wall
When Manuel Maria Trindade, a 22-year-old forcado making his debut at Lisbon’s Campo Pequeno arena, stepped into the ring on that summer evening, few imagined the tradition would turn so devastating. The bull, estimated at about 700 kg (around 1,540 lb), charged with such force that it lifted Trindade off his feet and hurled him
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The pudu, the world’s smallest deer, just got even smaller
For years, the pudu has held a quirky claim to fame as the world’s smallest deer. Standing little more than a foot tall, it’s a shy forest dweller that dashes in zigzags when threatened. But scientists recently uncovered that this miniature deer isn’t just one species. It’s at least three, and one of them may
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The tapir’s secret map of the night
At night, the South American tapir slips out of the forest like a shadow with a heartbeat. It moves on memorized paths, nose low, reading scents the way we scan street signs. Where we see only mud and leaves, it finds a living map. That map starts at the tapir’s “toilets.” Biologists call them latrines,
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Scientists stunned as bright orange nurse shark found off Costa Rica
When anglers off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast reeled in a six‑foot nurse shark this summer, they knew at once it was extraordinary. Instead of blending into the sandy seafloor with mottled browns and grays, the shark glowed a vivid orange. Its eyes were blank white, almost spectral. Scientists later confirmed this was the first known
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Rare yellow king penguin photographed on South Georgia
In early 2021, the world was transfixed by photos of a bright yellow king penguin. The penguin, photographed by Belgian wildlife photographer Yves Adams in December 2019 on South Georgia Island, was unlike any king penguin ever documented. Its golden coat made it stand out instantly, a reminder that even in vast colonies, nature sometimes
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Hunter crushed by elephant during safari in Zimbabwe
In May 2017, Theunis Botha, a prominent South African trophy hunter, led a group on a licensed safari near Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. Botha, 51, had built a career guiding big-game expeditions and was known for using hounds to chase lions and leopards. On that day, his group crossed paths with a breeding herd
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The pibble effect: when cute words hack algorithms
The internet has always loved a nickname. Cats turned into “floofs,” raccoons became “trash pandas,” and pit bulls, once one of the most maligned dog breeds in America, morphed into “pibbles.” That single word, silly and soft on the tongue, has helped change how millions of people see a dog long stereotyped as dangerous. On
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‘Frankenstein’ rabbits spotted in U.S. as horned virus cases rise
In parts of the United States, wild rabbits have been spotted carrying an unsettling feature: black, horn-like projections sprouting from their heads. Residents who encounter them call them “Frankenstein” rabbits, but biologists know them by another name: eastern cottontails infected with Shope papillomavirus. The virus, first identified in the 1930s by virologist Richard Shope, causes skin tumors
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The pink fairy armadillo’s hidden life beneath Argentina’s sands
Beneath the windswept scrublands of central Argentina lives a creature so rarely seen that even seasoned desert ranchers might catch a glimpse only once in their lifetime. At barely six inches long and cloaked in a blush-colored shell, the pink fairy armadillo spends nearly all of its existence underground, tunneling through loose soil in the