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From monkeys terrorizing tourists to China’s “panda politics,” wild animals found their way into the news and captured our imagination in increasingly unexpected ways in 2023. An expert recently argued that wider access to technology and the internet would lead to more wild videos of animals, and this year went a long way toward proving […]

Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. […]