An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet ...

2 ‘Tear-Jerking’ Nature Photos From This Year’s NBP Competition—Explained By A Biologist

These two haunting wildlife portraits reveal the quiet violence of human expansion and, more importantly, the fragile lives ...
Mother Jones

This Invasive Disease-Carrier Is Showing Up in Places It Really Shouldn’t Be

However, as climate change allows Aedes aegypti to move northward, survive at higher elevations and stay active for longer ...
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Incredible Moment Clever Elephant Reaches Fruit by Standing on Hind Legs

Incredible footage captured near a farm in South African on Thursday, November 13, shows an elephant standing up on its hind legs to grab fruit from a tree branch. Efcee Claase said he was on his way ...
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This Massive Fungus in Oregon Is Eating the Forest, And It’s the Biggest Living Thing on Earth

Buried beneath the pine trees of eastern Oregon lies the largest living organism ever discovered. Nicknamed the “Humongous ...