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As the tallest land animals on Earth, giraffes are famous for reaching high up into the trees. Now, it turns out their minds can reach pretty far, too! Researchers from the University of Barcelona have found that these smart animals can do simple math....

A team of paleontologists led by Cairo University’s Dr. Tarek Yassin have unearthed an ancient "shark graveyard" in Egypt’s Western Desert. The discovery was revealed in the journal Cretaceous Research on August 18, 2026. It provides evidence that this now dry landscape was once covered by a shallow, tropical sea filled with marine life, including sharks....

Since 2020, a small, critically endangered subpopulation of fewer than 50 orcas has been ramming and even sinking boats in the Atlantic Ocean. These incidents typically occur off the coasts of Spain and Portugal during spring and summer. This is when the killer whales migrate to the area in search of Atlantic bluefin tuna, their main food source....

Researchers have identified a new species of monkey unlike any other known to science. Called Likweli by the locals, it lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is only the fifth new African monkey species discovered in the past 75 years....