cryptids This colorized footage of the last Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is incredible David Pescovitz
animals Cast your vote for Aotearoa New Zealand's "Bird of the Century" (and listen to dozens of bird songs while you're at it!) Jennifer Sandlin
girl scouts You can help decide the next Girl Scout Cookie Mascot: will it be a bison, ferret, bat, or mountain goat? Jennifer Sandlin
Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling
Science Trailer: Netflix's "Cave of Bones," a documentary about the discovery that an extinct small-brained ape ritually buried their dead Ruben Bolling
Science Study: Small-brained hominins used fire, engraved tools and cave walls, and buried their dead Ruben Bolling
seeds De-extinction event: York groundsel, eradicated in wild, re-established there from seeds Rob Beschizza
politics Senate votes to remove the endangered lesser prairie-chicken from the endangered species list Jennifer Sandlin
conservation Watch Walter Cronkite announce Pan Am's plans to ground safari hunters (1971) Mark Frauenfelder