Animals

Mark Catesby's Blue Jay.

Mark Catesby's New World

The artist sketched American wildlife for Europe's high society, educating them on the creatures living among the unexplored lands

Climate change causes carbon dioxide to dissolve in ocean water making it more acidic and efficient at transmitting sound waves.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears

A fallow deer with its impressive but unevenly formed antler looks straight into the light of the setting sun.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs

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Standing Tall

Niger's giraffes and our 16th president

A fallow deer with its impressive but unevenly formed antler looks straight into the light of the setting sun.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs

Great white shark with its mouth open.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more

Peacock flounder (Bothus lunatus) near Coki Beach, St. Thomas, USVI

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

The whiskered auklet's plumage, joshua trees, squid beaks and more

Paul Raffaele

Paul Raffaele on “Sharks”

Dr. Murray operates on one of the Zoo’s gorillas.

On the Job: Zoo Veterinarian

Suzan Murray talks about making house calls at the nation’s zoo

An American alligator

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

America's oldest primate, ocean dead zones and alligator lungs

Lions and Tigers and Bears

Separated from his pod along the Pacific Coast, Luna befriended the people of remote Nootka Sound on the western shore of Canada’s Vancouver Island.

Befriending Luna the Killer Whale

How a popular Smithsonian story about a stranded orca led to a new documentary about humanity’s link to wild animals

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This Sloth is No Slacker

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Making History

Where Animals Roam

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Return of the Beasts

Elephant seals descend on California beaches for breeding season

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Wolf Tracker

Biologist Gudrun Pflueger talks about her encounter with a Canadian pack

Reaching 60 feet long and weighing up to 20 tonnes, the whale shark is the world's largest fish

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings

Jack rabbits like this one have mysteriously vanished from Yellowstone National Park a Wildlife Conservation Society study says.

Jackrabbits Vanish from Yellowstone

Since 1990, there's only been one jackrabbit sighting in Yellowstone

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